Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

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• I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Fall
  • Hunting
  • Deer

• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Wealth

• Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Key

• During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Same

• I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Many
  • Did
  • Follower

• I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Serious

• If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Writing
  • You
  • Rock

• 'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Me
  • First

• Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Alone
  • Grateful

• There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

  

  Zac Efron
  • Movie
  • You
  • Know

• 'Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print;A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Book

• I think that we are so challenged as women to be everything and do everything and make it look easy.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Women

• I learned to dive in Belize, which is sort of like learning to drive in an Aston Martin. The reefs and refuges are some of the most dramatic in the world. But the real reason I went was to dive the Blue Hole, a 400 ft. sinkhole near Ambergris Caye. Google it, and you'll see why.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • World
  • Real
  • Why

• Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.

  

  Umar
  • Live
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Together
  • High
  • Age

• The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Experience
  • Words
  • You

• Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Learning
  • Spread
  • Tendency