Sara Willis (Fanny Fern) Quotes

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

Sara Willis

• Girl
• Earth
• Alone
• Dog
• Cat

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• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Wonderful
  • Tough
  • Get

• Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • Always
  • Talking
  • Welcome

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Together
  • Pretty

• Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Boy
  • Flow

• Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • World
  • Best

• I can't cook to save my life.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Person
  • Everything

• A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Business
  • Desire
  • Common

• Integration of races of totally disparate origins and culture is one of the great myths of our time. It has never worked throughout history. The United States lost its only real opportunity of solving its racial problem when it failed after the Civil War to partition the old Confederacy into a 'South Africa' and a 'Liberia'.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• The danger is, if we're not very frank and strong about this, there will be tit-for-tat arrangements. You get into a situation where it becomes an epidemic.

  

  Charlie McCreevy
  • Strong
  • Danger
  • Situations

• I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

  

  Jennifer Capriati
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.

  

  Mary C. Jones
  • Fear
  • Study

• Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Women
  • Knowledge
  • Holders

• O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Girl
  • Earth
  • Alone