Sargent Shriver Quotes

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

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• I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Today
  • Star
  • Wall

• I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
  • House
  • Nice

• 'God Made Girls' was such a success for me. I'm so blessed to have over half a million downloads on that song. I was the highest-charting new female in 2014, and I couldn't have done that without Big Machine and their support.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Done
  • Success

• I met Kim Kardashian the other week, and she knew who I was! I walked in the room, and she was like, 'I should text Kanye saying you're here; he showed me your music.' It's really hard to digest. Also, I don't think you should digest stuff like that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • She
  • Week

• I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Me
  • Find
  • Warmth

• I'm a cliche.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Cliche

• 'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Records
  • Street

• And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • True
  • Light
  • Lost

• We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Deep

• I'm such a big fan of Woody Allen. I once tried staying at the same hotel as him, hoping I would bump into him!

  

  Deepika Padukone

• The most important things in life aren't things.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Life
  • Important

• You're so focused on this child, you can sometimes forget about you as a couple, and that's just as important.

  

  Al Roker
  • Important
  • Couple

• I never was a liner note junkie. I didn't know who produced records or there was such a thing as a straight songwriter. I always assumed that everybody that was singing a song wrote it or made it up.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Up
  • Song
  • Singing

• I've always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.

  

  Agyness Deyn

• You've got to come out and fire on all cylinders and get yourself up the leaderboard and show people that you're there and you're ready to win.

  

  Jason Day
  • People
  • Up
  • Fire

• Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

  

  Andrea Thompson
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Wonder

• We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Nature
  • Ignorance
  • Tolerance

• The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Selfishness
  • Confession
  • Screams

• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • History
  • Transformation
  • Produce

• Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

  

  David Joseph Schwartz
  • Success
  • Goals

• It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

  

  Sargent Shriver