Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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• I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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• The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
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• My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Family
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• Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
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• I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
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• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
  • Years
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• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
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  • Over

• I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Believe
  • Death
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• The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Education
  • System
  • Repair

• Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

  

  Rachel True
  • Women
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  • Editing

• I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Intellectuals
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• I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Quality
  • Clear
  • Website

• During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Place
  • Mirror
  • Half

• I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • America

• When you're a member of Congress, you can become an expert in a couple of subjects. For example, I've worked on federal procurement reform, the Armed Services Committee, manufacturing, and women's health care.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Health
  • Care

• I write songs based on things I see in the culture around me.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Culture

• I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

  

  Clifford Sifton
  • Wife
  • Quality
  • Born

• A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Education
  • Child
  • Born