James A. Garfield Quotes

Tell her I am seriously hurt; how seriously I cannot yet say. I am myself, and hope she will come to me soon. I send my love to her.

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• When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
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  • Myself

• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Deal
  • Islam

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
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• I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

  

  Sally Field
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Some things have to be believed to be seen.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Things
  • Seen
  • Some

• I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Driving
  • Saying
  • Ice

• We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Green

• I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Childhood
  • Drama
  • Complete

• My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Father
  • Day
  • Mom

• I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Important
  • Way
  • Healthy

• The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

  

  Barbara Ann Scott
  • Important
  • Want
  • Skating

• I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Know
  • Challenge
  • Child

• But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Bad
  • Corruption
  • Dictatorship

• I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Time
  • Working
  • Year

• If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • Women
  • Stand

• Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)

  

  Aristophanes
  • City
  • Clouds

• We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.

  

  Dilma Rousseff
  • Children
  • Rest

• I just love all women. A lot of them are women a lot of men wouldn't find attractive in the least, but they're mouth-watering to me. All different sizes: tall, short, fat. Just about the only type I'm not into is the typical fashion model.

  

  Dave Cooper
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Tell her I am seriously hurt; how seriously I cannot yet say. I am myself, and hope she will come to me soon. I send my love to her.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • She
  • Hope
  • Hurt