Bruce Barton Quotes

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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• I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Great
  • School
  • College

• I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Want
  • Picture
  • Paint

• To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Care

• The world is a very abnormal place.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Place
  • Very

• I spent most of my time as an actor in television, so directors in television - it's such a machine that's already in place that I don't think you notice the direction as much on the set.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Think
  • Direction

• If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• If you give a party, you better give it right.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • You
  • Party
  • Better

• I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Story
  • Old
  • Piano

• I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Novelist

• Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • God
  • Country
  • Goal

• Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Born

• You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Kids
  • Culture
  • Values

• He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • God
  • May
  • Happy

• Don Conroy died with exemplary courage, as one would expect. He never complained about pain or whimpered or cried out. His death was stoical and quiet. He never quit fighting, never surrendered, and never gave up. He died like a king. He died like The Great Santini. I thank you with all my heart.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • Great
  • Heart

• Circumretit enim vis atque iniuria quemque,atque, unde exortast, at eum plerumque revertit.

  

  Lucretius

• The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.

  

  Aravind Adiga
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Stop

• It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Pain

• We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived; and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

  

  Clive Barker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Past

• I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

  

  Jonathan Pryce
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fun

• Every day it gets worse and worse and worse. We just want to get everyone to vote and be a part of the noise. I can't do phone banks because I have to save my voice for stage, so the least I can do is a song.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Song
  • Stage
  • Vote

• Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Connection
  • Surprise
  • Delight

• Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Respect
  • More
  • Give

• Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Government
  • Leadership
  • Information Age

• If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

  

  Bruce Barton