William Wordsworth Quotes

The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

William Wordsworth

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• Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Support
  • Look

• Education is the mother of leadership.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Mother
  • Education
  • Leadership

• In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Ego
  • Personal

• I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • House
  • Myself
  • Mirror

• I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Think
  • Know
  • Try

• There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Woman
  • Perspective
  • Bring

• Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Time
  • Different
  • Poetry

• I insist, that if there is any thing which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People

• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trump

• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Man
  • Nowadays

• You must also have a sense of when to stop.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Stop

• As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Great
  • May
  • Past

• All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • People

• Our development strategy is based on a deep understanding of our customers. They want high-quality products and good service.

  

  Liang Wengen
  • Good
  • High
  • Quality

• The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Business

• There is a high cost for low living.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • High

• I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Eyes
  • Fire

• I can't step outside my house now - everybody knows my face.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • House

• A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Caring

• I'm not a goalscorer. It's not my job. Everyone always tells me I've never scored. I don't think I've had a shot.

  

  Ashley Cole
  • Job
  • Shot
  • Goalscorer

• I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Community
  • College

• The poster first of all justified its existence on the grounds of utility, and should it further aspire to beauty of line and colour, may not our hoardings claim kinship with the galleries, and the designers of affiches pose proudly in the public eye as the masters of Holland Road or Bond Street Barbizon (and, recollect, no gate money, no catalogue)?

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Money
  • May
  • Road

• My favorite scene that we shot in Season 1 of 'Kingdom' was the 'dance party' the boys and I had after we had gone thrift shopping, and then a lovely family dinner together.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Family
  • Together
  • Party

• The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

  

  William Wordsworth