Patty Judge Quotes

I was the first woman elected as secretary of agriculture in Iowa.

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• My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Grandmother
  • Characters
  • Manners

• Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Happy
  • Fighting
  • Pressure

• To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Believe
  • Relationship
  • Fall

• A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Home
  • Winning
  • Holiday

• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Ideas
  • Sound
  • Differences

• Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Live
  • Fear

• It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Pretty
  • Reality
  • Place

• By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• It's so easy to look foolish online.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Look
  • Easy
  • Foolish

• Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Great
  • Honesty

• I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • School
  • Kids
  • Want

• Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Matter
  • Police
  • Nothing

• Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Job
  • True
  • Friend

• I don't think there's ever been a team that ever scored more layups than that Blazers team.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Think
  • Team
  • More

• When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Women
  • School
  • Dad

• I hope, said the third, that your wanderings in lonely places do not mean that you have any of the romantic virus still in your blood. His name was Mr. Humanist.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Hope
  • Romantic
  • Lonely

• The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • True

• Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially true at the elementary and middle school levels. They feel it's part of their vocation to teach other things that are not formally academic content.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • School
  • Job
  • True

• In young adult novels and children's books, you stay in moment. The story goes through a school year or a weekend. You never get a sense of a future self because the young person has not lived that yet.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Children
  • School
  • Future

• Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as cute as a button, flash a little deviant guile his way, and tell him to go feast on somebody’s else’s sweet flesh.

  

  Nancy Milford
  • Life
  • Flesh
  • Button

• I needed to be sexier. I needed to be more hip. I needed to be more edgy and this and that. 'No, don't write that kind of song, write this type of song. No, don't work with that producer, work with this producer. No, don't wear those clothes, wear these clothes.' And I didn't want to be a puppet, you know?

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Work
  • Song
  • Edgy

• I was the first woman elected as secretary of agriculture in Iowa.

  

  Patty Judge