Albert Kesselring Quotes

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.

Albert Kesselring

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• I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Myself
  • Sad
  • Celebrity

• I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Father
  • Me
  • Popular

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Around
  • Ever
  • Merle Haggard

• Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Children
  • Power
  • Control

• Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Film

• It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Father

• When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

  

  Edmund White
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • School
  • American

• I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Love
  • Basketball
  • Size

• I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Country
  • City

• Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

  

  Margot Fonteyn
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Home
  • Risk
  • Financial

• It's always nice to hear people say, 'You sound the same,' when I know I don't.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Nice

• Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • Bad

• My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.

  

  Bernard L. Schwartz
  • Business
  • Father
  • Entrepreneur

• If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Teenager

• When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Beer
  • Wasted
  • Hotel Room

• It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Find
  • Difficult
  • Duty

• This is a simple story of a battle; such a tale as may be told by a soldier who is no writer to a reader who is no soldier.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • May
  • Simple
  • Soldier

• A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.

  

  Albert Kesselring
  • Soldier
  • Duty
  • Obey