Mary Beard Quotes

It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old.

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• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Understand

• My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Religion
  • Without

• Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Love
  • Justice
  • Bible

• I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Support
  • Friend
  • Organization

• I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Beat

• I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Movies
  • Mother`s
  • Lot

• There's a real power in heels and a good dress.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Good
  • Real
  • Power

• A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Same
  • Poison
  • Relative

• I was a music fan first way before I started creating it, so I still get giddy when I get to be around people that I respect so much.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Loved

• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Book
  • English
  • Green

• The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Up
  • World
  • Done

• It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Today
  • Stereotype

• All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Alien

• He checked, of course. Being sure and being willing to risk that surety against his future were not the same thing.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Future
  • Risk

• Divina Natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit urbes.

  

  Marcus Terentius Varro

• Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting the elderly, the line between advertising and unscrupulous manipulation will be harder to discern.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • People
  • Worry
  • Manipulation

• My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Simple
  • Feels
  • Theory

• I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Music

• I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.

  

  Benjamin Bratt
  • Children
  • Quality
  • Priority

• It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old.

  

  Mary Beard