D. Elton Trueblood Quotes

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

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• I grew up in a very large, poor family.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Poor

• I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Strong
  • Always
  • Body

• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Feel
  • Husband
  • Debate

• If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Wind
  • Page
  • Facebook

• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Digital

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Think
  • Question

• The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Up
  • Control
  • Audience

• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Second
  • Liked
  • Rembrandt

• I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Home
  • Experience

• The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Short

• Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Forget
  • Healthy

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Fool

• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Think
  • Future
  • Party

• I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Moments
  • Able

• People have a hard time going to a club and seeing this business tool on stage that's wholly indicative of everything that rock is not. Rock is not about sitting in an office setting up documents, yet they see someone on stage doing that.

  

  Keith Fullerton Whitman
  • People
  • Hard
  • Office

• Having an education is extremely valuable, but we need to help people connect their choice of studies to a potential career at an earlier age so that they are better prepared to get the job they want when the time comes.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Done
  • Fierce
  • Essentials

• It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • People
  • May
  • Tree