Charles Kingsley Quotes

For men must work, and women must weep,And there's little to earn, and many to keep,Though the harbor bar be moaning.

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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Easy

• When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Tough

• You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Distance

• I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Media

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Speak
  • Radio
  • Go

• I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • World
  • Spiritual
  • Thoughts

• It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Funny
  • Day
  • Forever

• I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • People
  • High
  • Hair

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Real
  • Theatre
  • Broadway

• I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Health
  • Single

• Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • House
  • Lost

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Young
  • Danger

• Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Race
  • Will
  • Generosity

• As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Difficult
  • Relationships

• I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Like
  • Things
  • Characters

• A fan almost pulled me off stage once, and that was a little scary because I totally almost ate it!

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Me
  • Scary
  • Stage

• But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.

  

  George C. Scott
  • Hand

• ...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • People
  • God
  • Integrity

• The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Work
  • Words
  • Day

• For men must work, and women must weep,And there's little to earn, and many to keep,Though the harbor bar be moaning.

  

  Charles Kingsley
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