Melissa Gilbert Quotes

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

Melissa Gilbert

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• The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Writing
  • America
  • History

• I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • School
  • History
  • Today

• Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Help
  • Gift

• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Age
  • First
  • Ever

• It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Famous

• In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Business
  • Running
  • Competition

• I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Myself
  • More
  • Iceland

• If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • May

• We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • People
  • Think
  • Better

• You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Real
  • School

• Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Successful
  • Being
  • Pet

• Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Support
  • Care
  • Show

• Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • World
  • Humanity
  • Paradise

• I always forgive, but I never forget.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Never
  • Forgive
  • Never Forget

• If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Free
  • Energy
  • Law

• I've never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public option, universal coverage, an end to insurance policy rescissions, and no restrictions against covering people with pre-existing conditions.

  

  Jerrold Nadler
  • People
  • Health
  • Insurance

• You can't be at your full creative power if you are sedated.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Power

• I made and created a show that my family was all on board with, and we were so excited because we got to work together.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Work
  • Family
  • Together

• I don't talk about myself in the third person. When I start doing that, you'll know I'm having an out-of-body experience.

  

  Peter Marino
  • Experience

• I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Time
  • Children

• I'm not out here to disrespect anybody, ... And obviously with Wags, I'm not. I just kind of hit it and I was like, man, I got it. I looked at it and just ran.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Got
  • Hit
  • Disrespect

• My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

  

  Melissa Gilbert
  • Children
  • Divorce
  • Complicated