Keith O'Brien Quotes

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

Keith O'Brien

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• I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Couple
  • Said
  • Pilots

• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

  Warren Giles
  • School
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Care
  • Deepest

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Government
  • Chance

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Present

• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Audience
  • See
  • Blue

• Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Values
  • Wealth
  • Capitalism

• India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • India
  • Remain
  • Gas

• I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Think
  • Best
  • U.S.

• In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Women
  • Power
  • Freedom

• It should not be the government running the economy.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Running
  • Government
  • Should

• I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Home
  • Stars
  • Pool

• Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Education
  • Food

• I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

  

  Lech Walesa

• Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• I moved to Harvard in 1998, and in 2000 the first kidney exchange in the United States was done at a hospital nearby. I started to think, 'Gee, there might be a way where I could help organize it, make it easier for people to find kidneys.'

  

  Alvin E. Roth
  • People
  • Done
  • Help

• Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

  

  Matthew Bourne

• My mom is in charge of my earnings.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Mom

• Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

  

  Keith O'Brien
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Society