John Gardner Quotes

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

John Gardner

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• I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • God
  • Always
  • Teeth

• I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Think
  • English
  • Teeth

• I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.

  

  Nash Grier
  • People
  • Want
  • Pursue

• I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Hair
  • Never
  • Teeth

• The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • New
  • Tongue
  • Teeth

• You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!

  

  Maggie Q
  • Up
  • Know
  • Wake Up

• Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• Got the eye of the tiger, the lion of Judah

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Eye
  • Determination
  • Lion

• Now Bart, since you broke Grandpa's teeth, he gets to break yours.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Broke
  • Teeth
  • Grandpa

• It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Believe
  • See
  • Teeth

• Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Up
  • Mind
  • She

• I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing Up

• If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Football
  • Tiger
  • Woods

• I'm just glad to see that Pete (Sampras) shut everyone up last year. That was satisfying. You can't bag on guys like Pete or Tiger (Woods) or Michael Jordan. They can play as long as they want, they can do whatever they want. Nobody should be able to tell them differently.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Up
  • Long
  • Guy

• Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.

  

  Lily King
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Ideas

• Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Moments
  • Challenges
  • Strength

• The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier to remember, whenever they brush their teeth.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Remember
  • Government
  • Alcohol

• Tupac used to comment on people who criticized him for cursing, as a matter of fact he said, this is just about verbatim, ‘As I walked into this hall, I passed a young child who was hungry. There is not a bigger curse than a young child hungry’.

  

  Afeni Shakur
  • Child
  • Hungry
  • Criticized

• What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• My kids love going to school. When my son started going to kindergarten, we asked him, 'How was it?' and his only complaint was that he didn't get to stay in there longer.

  

  Camila Alves
  • School
  • Love
  • Kids

• We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's Sanders the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • Political
  • Moral
  • Winner

• Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

  

  John Gardner
  • Grows
  • Teeth
  • Pursue