Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart -
I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
Malala Yousafzai -
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch -
My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
Larry Elder -
You don't know where life takes you.
Ian McShane -
If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
Pankaj Mishra
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I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.
Larry Wilcox -
Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country.
Barack Obama -
I can't stand Paris. I hate the place. Full of people talking French, which is a thing I bar. It always seems to me so affected.
P. G. Wodehouse -
There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.
Dalton Trumbo -
Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Aleister Crowley -
Religion is innately irrational.
Christopher Hitchens
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There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
Albert Brooks -
So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
Jerry Pournelle -
Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
Alice Ripley -
The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
Marjorie Holmes -
I'm obsessed with golf, so I love going to play golf.
Chris Lane -
I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'
Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde
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Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.
Jo Stafford -
I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.
Bruno Dumont -
I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.
Elizabeth Lesser -
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
Mae Whitman -
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson