Philip James Bailey Quotes

Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

Philip James Bailey

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• What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Human
  • Problems
  • Everyone

• Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Impossible
  • Word
  • Fools

• I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Life
  • Good
  • Kiss

• When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Serious

• I grew up in New York, I love New York.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • Up

• 'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Proud

• I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.

  

  Anne Northup
  • Country
  • Political
  • Perspective

• Let me tell you, there's nothing like pulling up to Fox Studios bumping Jeezy in your Mercedes.

  

  Lil Rel Howery
  • Up

• Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching my grandmother lose her memories is, you know, we are all facing erasure eventually.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Time
  • Memories
  • Grandmother

• I think life is pretty awesome.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Awesome

• I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.

  

  Donny Robinson
  • Moving
  • Goals

• All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

  

  John Muir
  • World
  • Heart
  • Light

• If you ask me what I should say to the girls who are making money, I think it's as normal as a guy making money.

  

  Mawra Hocane
  • Money
  • Guy

• In the midst of the turmoil, the fear, the anxiety that's in our nation and in our world, as I was walking and meditating, I heard the voice of God. I've heard that voice many times; it's familiar to me, and there's no way that I can fail to understand it's His voice because I'm familiar with it.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • World
  • God
  • Fear

• Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Grace
  • Channel
  • Neglects

• Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • Done
  • She
  • History

• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Musicians

• My parents didn't want us on the streets or in trouble, so they thought the best thing was to have us work. I saw how we had to, during bad times, stretch the dollar. And during good times, we couldn't spend it, because you never knew when the bad times were going to happen again. It gave me a great respect for how hard it is to make money.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Money
  • Trouble
  • Parent

• Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Friendship
  • Love Is

• Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Love
  • Sea
  • Creatures

• Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Creatures
  • Grind
  • Self-improvement