Phoebe Cary Quotes

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Kids
  • Black

• Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Want
  • You

• I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.

  

  Gallant
  • Something
  • Loved
  • Very

• I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Band
  • Chicago
  • Veteran

• Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Good
  • Family
  • Society

• I hate to travel with stuff.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Hate
  • Travel
  • Stuff

• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Free
  • Poverty
  • Capable

• At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Live
  • Society

• You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Great
  • Moment
  • Loss

• How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?

  

  Dan Burton
  • Food
  • Drug
  • Safe

• Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsibility involved.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Women
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Desk

• They had been in love, desperately in love, but the universe cared nothing for the vicissitudes of the human heart.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Heart
  • Universe

• If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.

  

  Jam Master Jay
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Doubt

• We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Family
  • Remember
  • War

• Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed.

  

  Benny Green
  • Time
  • Serious
  • Attitude

• I am walking home from school slowly, playing a game in which it's forbidden to step on the cracks between the slabstone squares of the pavement. The sun is playing its game of lines and shadows. Nothing happens. There is nothing but this moment, in which I am walking toward home, walking in time. But suddenly, time pierces me with its sadness. This moment will not last. With every step I take, a sliver of time vanishes. Soon, I'll be home, and then this, this nowness will be the past, I think, and time seems to escape behind me, like an invisible current being sucked into an invisible vortex. How can this be, that this fullness, this me on the street, this moment which is perfectly abundant, will be gone? It's like that time I broke a large porcelain doll and no matter how much I wished it back to wholeness, it lay there on the floor in pieces. I can't do anything about this backward tug either. How many moments do I have in life? I hear my own breathing: with every breath, I am closer to death. I slow down my steps: I'm not home yet, but soon I will be, now I am much closer, but not yet… not yet… not yet… Remember this, I command myself, as if that way I could make some of it stay. When you're grown up, you'll remember this. And you'll remember how you told yourself to remember.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Game
  • Sadness
  • Escape

• I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Remember

• Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.

  

  James Carville
  • Great

• Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

  

  Eric Alterman
  • Disappointment

• And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

  

  Phoebe Cary