Francis Parkman Quotes
Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.Francis Parkman
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
Harrison Ford -
I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
Halston Sage -
A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
Q-Tip -
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
Vera Wang -
Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
Adam Braun -
I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
O. J. Simpson -
For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
Adam Grant -
Time was God's first creation.
Walter Lang -
When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
Faith Hill -
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Saadi
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor -
Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
Ferdinand Lassalle -
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
J. M. Coetzee -
Writing is the supreme solace.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett -
'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
Natasha Trethewey
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There's no question that looking down to search the Web, send a text message, or log onto Facebook puts you in danger and puts people around you on the road in danger.
Ted Deutch -
We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
Alexei Mordashov -
When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.
Eric Dickerson -
What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality.
DeRay Mckesson -
Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.
Francis Parkman