Dick Van Dyke Quotes

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.

Dick Van Dyke

Quotes to Explore

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

Zadie Smith
- Trying
- You
- Stop
Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?

Zhang Zhidong
- History
- Present
- Honesty
I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.

Randi Weingarten
- Up
- Live
- Society
What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.

Imre Kertesz
- Great
- History
- Moral
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

Ice T
- Last
- Tyranny
- Bear
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

Mac Davis
- Time
- Me
- Painting