James Whitcomb Riley Quotes

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

James Whitcomb Riley

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• Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Why
  • Poetry
  • Away

• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Morning
  • Body
  • Butter

• I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Growth
  • Recovery
  • Fairness

• A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Down
  • Afraid
  • Walk

• You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Loved
  • Old

• As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Play
  • Said
  • Rules

• You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Mind
  • Positive
  • Door

• It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Important
  • Age
  • Senior

• Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Image
  • Interests
  • Protecting

• I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Feel
  • Actress
  • I Feel

• There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But it's also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves as Scott Pilgrim, so it's interesting that there are two kind of schools of thought about the character. One is, like, Scott Pilgrim is awesome. The second is Scott Pilgrim believes himself to be awesome.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Character
  • Interesting

• When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Future
  • Eyes
  • Look

• I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Moving

• Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Everything
  • Greed
  • Destroys

• The name ‘London Banker’ had especially a charmed value. He was supposed to represent, and often did represent, a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated refinement which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Society
  • Value

• The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

  

  James Allen
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Dream

• That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Think
  • Bird

• There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it. Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit, or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation, and persistence you can fix this desirable trait irrevocably.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • May
  • Wish
  • Single

• It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Why
  • Play
  • Myself

• When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

  

  James Whitcomb Riley
  • Bird