Mary Harris Jones Quotes

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

Mary Harris Jones

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• People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Long
  • Struggle
  • Alive

• There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Angry

• Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Man
  • Myself

• There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Good
  • True
  • Thought

• I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Hit
  • Elephant
  • Bull

• Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Want
  • Girl
  • Wonder

• My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Writing
  • Understand
  • Writer

• It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Nice
  • Enjoy
  • Quiet

• The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Ideas
  • Sense
  • Activity

• My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Dad
  • Years
  • Corporation

• Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Gay
  • Worst

• I'm an urban act.

  

  Maluma
  • Act
  • Urban

• When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • You
  • Strong

• What I want to focus on tonight is the state of our democracy. Understand, democracy does not require uniformity but democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity - the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Together
  • Fall
  • Focus

• I believe that the want of our age is not more 'free' handling of the Bible, but more 'reverent' handling, more humility, more patient study, and more prayer.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Free

• I was very much aware that we still had to get safely back down the mountain again and that was quite an important factor. I really felt the most excitement when we finally got to the bottom of the mountain again and it was all behind us.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Important
  • Mountain

• Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.

  

  Elizabeth Vargas
  • Country
  • Baby

• I host reality shows; the last thing I ever wanted to do was be a contestant on one.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Reality

• The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • People
  • Money
  • Wants

• Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in many, O broken and blind, One as the waves are at one with the sea! Ay! when life seems scattered apart, Darkens, ends as a tale that is told, One, we are one, O heart of my heart, One, still one, while the world grows old.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

  

  Euripides
  • Children
  • Lucky
  • Hopes

• Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

  

  Mary Harris Jones