Joni Ernst Quotes
As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.
Quotes to Explore
-
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
-
I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
-
I'm just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I just like to drive into things and take risks.
-
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
-
Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
-
I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
-
I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
-
I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
-
When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.
-
My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!
-
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
-
My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
-
If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.
-
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
-
My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.
-
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
-
My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
-
He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
-
Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.
-
Marvel has, like, 9,000 characters. They could do a horror movie tomorrow and call it Marvel. They can do anything.
-
I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?
-
My first job in a country band was after I moved to California.
-
As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.
