Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

Rebecca Harding Davis

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• I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Style

• President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Government
  • Promise

• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Learn
  • Same

• I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • High
  • Dance
  • Training

• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Chance

• I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Right

• I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Why
  • Help

• The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • America
  • Parents
  • Doing

• Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Help
  • Effort

• One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

  

  Olin Miller
  • People
  • Best
  • Limit

• Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Situation

• The last consequence of a dying Christianity is a dying people. Not one post-Christian nation has a birth rate sufficient to keep it alive….The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Death
  • Christian

• It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Law

• I'm a Cleveland Indian by birth.

  

  Anand Giridharadas

• If I'm in the 'hood, I like Chef Creole's Haitian rice and stewed chicken.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Hood

• I started modeling when I was - not older, but not 12. I have a mom who's a feminist - she's an English professor, an intellectual. She really gave me the equipment to understand that you can celebrate yourself without putting yourself down or needing to apologize for the way you look. I think that attitude is really crucial for a model.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • She
  • Mom
  • English

• I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

• But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.

  

  Jeffrey Bernard
  • Money

• Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Running

• Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Revolution
  • Leader
  • Destined

• Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Technology

• I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that influences so many people.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • People
  • Different
  • Wish

• Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Children
  • Taught
  • Agents