Mary Oliver Quotes

I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.

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• I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Regret
  • Questions

• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Greed
  • Generosity
  • Goodness

• My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Make
  • Plan
  • Canada

• I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Myself

• The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Hope
  • College

• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Too Much

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• By and large my relations with the US were good.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Good
  • U.S.
  • Large

• The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Music
  • Love
  • Beatles

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Girl
  • Hair
  • Down

• Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Power
  • Clean

• To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Professional

• People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • People
  • Food
  • Mexican

• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red

• While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Age
  • Father
  • Education

• My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• I love Jill Scott! I love everything she puts on, how she does her hair; everything about Jill Scott is amazing!

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Amazing
  • Does
  • Puts

• And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

  

  Cornelia Funke
  • English

• Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Today
  • Struggle
  • Religion

• Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Good
  • Men
  • Done

• I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.

  

  Mary Oliver
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  • House
  • Attention