Barbara Holland Quotes
The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
-
I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.
-
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
-
I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
-
I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
-
I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
-
I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment.
-
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
-
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
-
You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
-
Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.
-
You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.
-
Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
-
I grew up with horrible skin. I had cystic acne ever since I can remember. I ended up finally listening to those people who say you are what you eat.
-
From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.
-
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
-
It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.
-
And I remember what she said to meHow she swore that it never would endI remember how she held me oh so tightWish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
-
I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
-
You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not.
-
A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.
-
It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.
-
My music is pretty versatile; I have a lot of genres and styles. I don't think I should be pigeonholed into one thing. So we'll see where my career goes.
-
The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.
