Homer Quotes

But age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

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• Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Purpose

• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Trust
  • Positive
  • Perspective

• I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trouble
  • Face
  • Inside

• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Funny
  • Thought

• The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Error
  • Data
  • Phone

• Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Own

• Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Listening

• Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• One of the cool things about traveling and being a musician is that you meet so many people who have studied different things and have different careers.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • Different
  • Cool

• You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Mother
  • Famous

• The proliferation of mobile broadband networks combined with local area hot spots is bringing the dream of seamless and ubiquitous connectivity closer to reality.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Dream
  • Reality

• From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • Humanity

• Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

  

  Artur Davis
  • Compassion

• There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?

  

  Per Petterson
  • Good
  • Long

• Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

  

  Buddha
  • Free
  • Peace
  • Thoughts

• Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Winning

• The stories that are most unfamiliar, the ones that seem to come out of the blue about people that aren't well known, usually come from producers that have really done a lot of homework and looked around. Other stories come from the correspondents.

  

  Frank Deford
  • People
  • Done
  • Blue

• A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

  

  Douglas Dunn

• We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of diversity. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Education
  • Diversity
  • Hierarchy

• The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, 'The enemy's ships are more than ours,' replied, 'For how many then wilt thou reckon me?'

  

  Plutarch
  • Enemy

• We had admired the presidential palace and parliament houses, paused beside the striking India Gate, inspected the 16th Century Humayun's Tomb-a forerunner to the Taj Mahal-and cruised past scores of international embassies.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Past
  • Presidential

• Honestly, with stats and things like that, I try not to think about them. I just find that the more you think about goals and assists - what you need to do and accomplish - the more you tend to fall short. When you hope for something and you want something, it comes to you.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Hope
  • Fall
  • Goals

• But age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

  

  Homer
  • Enemy
  • Mankind
  • Fallen