Ernest Gaines Quotes

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

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• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!

  

  Lance Gross
  • Work
  • Done
  • Why

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Way
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Football
  • Beginning

• I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • People
  • Business
  • Small

• Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Probably

• All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Creature
  • Evolve
  • Capacities

• American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Country
  • American
  • Missionary

• The pirate gaped at Belinda's dragon,And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,He fired two bullets, but they didn't hit,And Custard gobbled him, every bit.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Pirate

• When I stand before thee at the day's end thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Healing
  • Scars

• Cien hombres, juntos, son la centésima parte de un hombre.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Son

• We're seeking out such grossness in human behavior and want such mindless entertainment. 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' and some of these other shows are more racist. Or '16 and Pregnant.' Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious?

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Real
  • Serious
  • Teenager

• I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Friends
  • America

• I've been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom and dad to become vegetarian, and my brother became a vegetarian.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Brother

• Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Relationship

• Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Life
  • Father
  • Powerful

• To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

  

  Dennis Banks
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Honor

• I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

  

  Sidney Altman
  • Opportunity
  • Physics
  • Student

• This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • America
  • Confused
  • Speed

• I don't believe all rich people are selfless philanthropists.

  

  Bernard Goldberg
  • People
  • Believe
  • Selfless

• People like Ellie Simmonds, David Weir, and Hannah Cockroft have become superstars alongside the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis. I think it has changed attitudes to disability.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • People

• Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • People
  • Children
  • Faces