L. Frank Baum Quotes

'If any of us takes a rest, We'll be arrested sure, And get no restitution 'Cause the rest we must endure.'

L. Frank Baum

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• My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.

  

  Zach Anner
  • True
  • Best
  • Rest

• You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Important
  • Rest

• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • You
  • Energy
  • Rest

• When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • You
  • Rest
  • Blues

• There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Up
  • Rest

• Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Family
  • Home
  • Rest

• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

  

  Ovid
  • Beautiful
  • Rest
  • Crop

• Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Life
  • Father
  • Freedom

• Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • City
  • Government
  • Rest

• I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Rest

• In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Environment

• We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • City
  • Person
  • Feel

• I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Life
  • Up
  • Rest

• Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact means only a superficial transformation, one that cannot be permanent or bring real betterment. It is a change of form only, not of substance, as so tragically proven by Russia.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Time
  • Real
  • Rest

• But the universe wasn't really unfair, she thought, and her mouth quirked. It just didn't give much of a damn one way or the other.

  

  David Weber
  • She
  • Universe

• I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it takes the energy out of my writing. When I begin to work, it's like a soda bottle that's been jostled before it's opened. There's a lot of pent up energy in there. I have to let it out slowly, carefully, so that I can turn it into a written work.

  

  David B. Coe
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• 'If any of us takes a rest, We'll be arrested sure, And get no restitution 'Cause the rest we must endure.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Rest