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

• 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

• 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

• What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Black
  • Eyes

• I just want to get back to the point where America has the best of everything.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • America

• I'm not sure history has ended.

  

  John Bolton
  • History

• My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • World
  • Mother
  • Father

• I believe we have a responsibility, even if our job is to lead a nonprofit organization, as private citizens to be good citizens and to make our voices heard.

  

  Jerry Falwell, Jr.
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Job

• At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

  

  John Ruskin
  • People
  • Agree
  • Find Out

• Crescunt animalia quaedam minuta, quae non possunt oculi consequi, et per aera intus in corpus per os ac nares perveniunt atque efficiunt difficilis morbos.

  

  Marcus Terentius Varro

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

  

  Bruce Barton