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

• My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Job
  • Day
  • End

• 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

• Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Technology

• 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

• What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

  

  Mack McLarty
  • House
  • Italian
  • White

• 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

• I would've loved to have children and I'm really good with kids, but I just didn't want to commit to anything when I had cancer. I didn't want to plan for the future.

  

  Frazer Hines
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record numbers during the last presidential election, will pass their enthusiasm on to their children.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Children

• First we have to see. Or first we have to be taught to see. We have to be taught to see here, because here is everywhere, related to everywhere else, and if we don't see, hear, taste, smell and feel in this place - not only will we never know anything but the world of sense will be by that much diminished everywhere.

  

  William Carlos Williams
  • World
  • Knows
  • Taught

• I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

  

  Annie Potts
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Opportunity

• Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Dependence
  • Depending
  • Aggregates

• 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