Yoko Ono Quotes

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

Yoko Ono

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• In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Death
  • New
  • Generation

• If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • British
  • Vegetable
  • Potato

• We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Time
  • Think
  • Care

• When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Thought
  • Moment
  • Roses

• Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Desire
  • Reflection
  • Forgiveness

• We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Forever

• I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Why
  • Man

• I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Child
  • Coffee
  • Tea

• The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Found
  • Early
  • Communist

• I was rubbish at school.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Rubbish

• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Light

• I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Balance

• As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • Real
  • Reflection

• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Control
  • Failure
  • Fault

• Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Friends
  • Hate
  • Best

• You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Winning
  • Things
  • Habit

• There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Live
  • Adventure

• An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Always
  • Adventure

• Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Long
  • Art
  • Me

• The enigma I will not explain – its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.

  

  Edward Elgar
  • Dark
  • Connection

• My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Poetry

• I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Today

• Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Child