Frank A. Clark Quotes

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

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• There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Me
  • Nothing

• There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Long
  • Political

• I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Remember
  • Couple
  • Europe

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Music
  • Father
  • Day

• What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Small
  • City
  • Like

• There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

  

  Karen O
  • Years
  • Loved
  • Myth

• The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Real
  • Church
  • British

• I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Enjoy
  • Would
  • Dinner

• Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opinions

• I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Great
  • Problem
  • Myself

• Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

  

  Tana French
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Want
  • Like
  • Where

• A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Positive
  • Thoughts
  • Attitude

• Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Important
  • Art
  • Society

• Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Work
  • Change
  • Media

• I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Age

• Here's the lily, here the roseHer full chalice shall disclose;Here's narcissus wet with dew,Windflower and the violet blue.Wear the garland I have made;Crowned with it, put pride away;For the wreath that blooms must fade;Thou thyself must fade some day, Rhodocleia.

  

  Maurice Baring
  • Pride
  • Blue

• When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Good
  • Think

• Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

  

  Augustus Hare
  • World
  • Good
  • May

• See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

  

  Frank A. Clark
  • Good
  • Father
  • Son