Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

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• Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Man
  • Shoes
  • Fools

• A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Honor

• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Man
  • Hero

• I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Wish
  • Poverty

• In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

  

  Halsey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Passion

• You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Father
  • Best
  • Husband

• Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Soldier
  • Producer

• We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Man

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Long
  • Women
  • Kids

• Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• Your man Flavor Flav is living!

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Man
  • Living
  • Flavor

• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Necessity

• Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Interesting

• My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Time
  • World
  • Man

• I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • True
  • Man

• A lot of young women play soccer, and it's wonderful to give them something to aspire to.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • Women
  • Soccer

• When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Brother
  • Older
  • Loose

• The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Age
  • Know
  • Daughter

• To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Die
  • Dying
  • Leave

• I'll say this, I'm no stranger to working with a foreign cast, foreign directors, that sort of thing. I love it, because I think that when you have people from different countries, it sort of brings everyone together, it's more of a worldly film.

  

  Jaimie Alexander
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Women
  • Father
  • Man