Theodore Roethke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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I really think music in school is vital. Some pivotal moments in my life were my childhood scholastic experiences with music - teachers who found out I could sing, and encouraged me, or teachers who turned me on to music or bands I hadn't yet heard.
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I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.
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You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.
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I measure time by how a body sways.
