John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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• Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Control
  • Person
  • Situation

• Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Men
  • Moon
  • Comparison

• What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Done
  • Kind
  • Amazing

• The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Community
  • Stereotypes

• I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • American
  • Know
  • Community

• One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Day

• The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Film
  • Surprise
  • Difficulty

• My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Parents
  • Weird
  • Creative

• All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten. They have no internal monologues; they could be absolutely anyone.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Just
  • Internal
  • Well-Rounded

• All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Childhood
  • Say
  • I Can

• I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Small
  • Born
  • Small Town

• I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Up
  • Young
  • Company

• It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May
  • Energy
  • Lost

• He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs (laughter).

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Faith
  • Forever
  • Laughter

• The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found-the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.

  

  Allen Ginsberg
  • World
  • Lost
  • Poetry

• Free-market economics and tolerance for Chinese violations of trade and commercial protocols did not result in either the liberalization or the democratization of China. Over the past two decades, we have been told that the Japanese, the European Union, and the Chinese successively would eclipse America with their respective superior paradigms.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • America
  • Free
  • Past

• The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Important
  • Snow

• I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me. No one can stop me.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • World
  • Fun
  • Parents

• Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs.

  

  Aditi Shankardass
  • Children
  • May

• The planet has seen many changes. It has appeared and disappeared many times. It flickers off and on - but because of the intervals of your attention each on period seems to last for millions of years, of course, while at other levels the earth is like a firefly, flickering off and on.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Earth
  • Attention
  • Period

• My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Years
  • Try
  • Three

• We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Used
  • Built
  • Fighter

• As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Dad

• Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier