Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • School
  • Kids
  • Like

• I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • God
  • Christian
  • Fight

• I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Truth

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Environment

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • True
  • Language
  • Symbolism

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Years
  • Happens
  • Lot

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Fashion
  • Choices
  • Biggest

• I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Dreams

• The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Important
  • Food

• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Shoes
  • Year
  • White

• I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and I was bored, and I thought I just wanted to do something to occupy myself instead of asking, 'What can I do, mum? Entertain me.' I started, and it really just took over, and I realised, 'Wow, this is an amazing experience.'

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • Writing
  • School
  • Experience

• I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Relationship

• I am very down to earth and practical.

  

  Ashley Olsen
  • Earth

• It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Desire
  • Learn
  • Collaboration

• For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

  

  Petrarch
  • Earth
  • Desire
  • Body