Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes

I'm just a tough old woman.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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• I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Important
  • American

• Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Mother
  • Baby
  • Sorry

• I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

  

  Abraham Whipple
  • Money
  • Never
  • Prize

• When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Human
  • Audience
  • Landscape

• I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Science
  • Magic
  • Sufficiently

• In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Knows
  • Countries
  • Some

• There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Evil
  • Fans
  • Humor

• If you want to love your life more, you can begin by living and loving more of it - by zestfully living and loving every teeny-tiny, gorgeously-detailed minutiae moment!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Love
  • Minutiae

• You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Moment

• Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • God
  • Religion
  • River

• Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Football
  • Shows
  • Fortunate

• The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Life
  • Power
  • Present

• Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Great
  • Men
  • History

• My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Virginia, to Kentucky about 1781 or 1782, where a year or two later he was killed by the Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, Pennsylvania.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Forest

• I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Suicide

• Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

  

  Akio Morita
  • People
  • Intelligent

• FAITH is the element, the “chemical” which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Faith
  • Prayer
  • Communication

• Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Small
  • Sex

• When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

  

  Lei Jun

• As you open yourself to living at your edge, your deepest purpose will slowly begin to make itself known. In the meantime, you will experience layer after layer of purposes, each one getting closer and closer to the fullness of your deepest purpose. It is as if your deepest purpose is at the center of your being, and it is surrounded by layers of concentric circles, each circle being a lesser purpose. Your life consists of penetrating each circle, from the outside toward the center.

  

  David Deida
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Purpose

• I'm just a tough old woman.

  

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas