Eugene McCarthy Quotes

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Night

• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Experience
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  • You

• I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

  

  Usain Bolt
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  • First
  • Race

• We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Science

• You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

  

  Indiana Evans
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  • You
  • Working

• If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

  

  Victor Garber
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  • Reading
  • Responsibility

• Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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  • Risk
  • Flying

• My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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  • Father
  • Angry

• I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • People
  • Long
  • Children

• I remember the first time I played the triple-A Yankees when I was 20 years old, and Darryl Strawberry was on that team. It was the first time I actually got goose bumps playing against another team.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Team

• In the neighborhood where I grew up, it was a rough neighborhood - well, not rough, but it certainly wasn't upper class or anything. But I remember hearing things like, 'The little man just can't get ahead.' And if you start to believe that, then you know what? You don't get ahead.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Remember

• I saw Tina Turner do 'Proud Mary' on TV, and it was so electrifying and such a unique experience. I remember crying out of excitement, and I knew that I wanted to be a performer and make people feel excited and moved, and that's why I gravitated towards it.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • People
  • Why
  • Experience

• Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy.

  

  Cynthia P. Schneider
  • Remember
  • Culture
  • Value

• Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Life
  • Remember

• I remember, as a kid, my grandfather would grab my temples and say, 'You've got to focus, Jake. You've got to focus.'

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Remember
  • Focus

• For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Technology
  • Serious
  • Magic

• There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Knowledge

• I went from 250 to, like, 175 in three and a half, four months. And then I ended up graduating with honors. I went from a 2.4 to a 3.06 in a year. It's funny how those two are related. I don't want to say that if you lose weight, you'll get smarter, but... well, it worked for me.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Up
  • Funny

• Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • See
  • Feet
  • Tread

• It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
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  • Candidate