Betty Smith Quotes

Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

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• It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Good
  • May
  • Truth

• I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Know
  • Immigrant

• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Always
  • Dance

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Think
  • Death
  • Day

• A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Work
  • Song
  • Listening

• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • More
  • Questioning

• I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Attention
  • Student
  • Paid

• I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Water
  • Memory
  • Fish

• We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Learning
  • Process
  • Mistakes

• Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Lyrics

• People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Good
  • Rich

• As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Life
  • Children
  • Parents

• I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Women
  • Humor

• My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Heroism
  • DNA

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

  

  Ismail Merchant
  • Strong
  • Language
  • Urdu

• In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Great
  • Pain

• There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Work
  • Feeling

• Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

  

  Peter Davison
  • People
  • Remember
  • Poetry

• If you are working in a publicly subsidized building, then you have a responsibility to deliver truly interesting, risky, innovative, even provocative work. Work that speaks to your audience in many resonant ways. The priority is less about the financial rewards.

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Responsibility

• Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

  

  Betty Smith
  • People
  • Book
  • Puzzles