Will Durant Quotes

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

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• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Healing
  • Medical

• I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Long
  • Care

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Support
  • Running
  • Problem

• If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Day
  • Balance

• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Die
  • Play

• I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Movie
  • Option
  • Turn

• Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Up
  • Business
  • Job

• Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • School
  • America

• Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Need

• If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • May

• I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Single
  • Dating
  • Rather

• Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Great
  • Career
  • Sometimes

• Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Support
  • Care
  • Show

• I try to eat fruit and be healthy.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Try
  • Healthy
  • Fruit

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

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Alone
  • Grateful

• But in cherishing all that is best in the land of your origin, and in desiring the highest welfare of the people of the old home, the question arises as to how that result can best be secured. I know that there is no better American spirit than that which is exhibited by many of those who have recently come to our shores.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Home
  • American

• My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Fly
  • Thinks
  • My Daughter

• More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

  

  John A. Powell
  • Children
  • American

• Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.

  

  Denise Juneau
  • Live
  • Children
  • School

• I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Old
  • Valuable

• The reason why 'Black Lives Matter' is a chant is because a lot of people feel, myself included, that sometimes they don't matter.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • People
  • Why
  • Black

• If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

  

  Will Durant
  • Children
  • Fortunate
  • Transmit