Marjorie Holmes Quotes

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Marjorie Holmes

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• If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Want
  • Name
  • Charity

• The harder you work, the luckier you get.

  

  Gary Player
  • Work
  • You
  • Harder

• I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Fun
  • Water
  • Sports

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • World
  • Food
  • Best

• This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Judge
  • Others
  • Ideals

• People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Nonfiction

• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Job
  • Career
  • Always

• I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Learn

• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Nature
  • Pain
  • Human Nature

• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  

  Ovid
  • Others
  • Crop
  • Heavier

• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Day
  • First

• When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Different
  • Why
  • Painting

• Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Saying
  • Expert

• In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter what shirt he's wearing. Whether it's your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Giving
  • Team
  • Best

• Yeah, I'm the Brit who isn't Lewis Hamilton that woke up and realised he was good. I got that tag because I was young, flying around in jets and driving fast cars. I always took my driving seriously, but I suppose I enjoyed life... But I'm not a playboy.

  

  Jenson Button
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Live
  • Child
  • Ethiopia

• If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Cool

• I think you should never be forced to be nice as an artist. An artist has to be uncomfortable in a way. Narcissistic and uncomfortable.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Nice

• What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

  

  Marjorie Holmes
  • Feeling
  • Small
  • Nice