Mary Harris Jones Quotes

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

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• I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.

  

  Jackson Brundage
  • Kind
  • Basketball
  • Pro

• I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Love
  • She
  • Night

• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • First
  • Short
  • Hear

• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Help
  • Religion
  • Practical

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Attention
  • Best
  • Face

• Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Know
  • Ambition

• If we're talking about guys who set the tone, you've got to go way back. But if we're talking about guys who made it possible for guys like A.J. Styles, Shawn Michaels kind of opened that door, along with Daniel Bryan.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Kind
  • Door
  • Talking

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • You
  • Party

• I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Great
  • Children
  • City

• Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Born
  • Just
  • Glitter

• When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Long
  • Children
  • Education

• People always think actors are really 'out there,' so you wouldn't have me pegged as one, but I knew pretty early on it was what I wanted to do, and I think that's pretty lucky.

  

  Talia Balsam
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Management
  • Productivity

• There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Woman
  • Enjoy

• I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • Right
  • Born

• I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.

  

  Jamie Kennedy
  • Rap
  • Teenager

• We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.

  

  Primo Levi
  • True
  • Luck

• The time of our production had absolutely nothing to do with politics or tactics.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Time
  • Politics
  • Production

• The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Family
  • Science

• I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • People

• What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

  

  Mary Harris Jones
  • Alone
  • Powerful