Bernard Crick Quotes

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Bernard Crick

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• When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Child

• It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Crazy
  • Religious
  • Degree

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Money
  • Learn
  • Cook

• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Country
  • Prove
  • United

• You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Travel
  • Write

• I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Great
  • Rock
  • Promise

• We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.

  

  Hal Hartley

• Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Reveal

• I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Ideas

• It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • Environment

• My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Realize
  • Fault

• I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Power
  • Science
  • Religious

• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Virtue
  • Crime
  • Heroism

• The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Message
  • Piece
  • Possessions

• Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Teachers
  • Failures
  • Tyrants

• Praise Him early, praise Him late, for our high and holy state; born, baptized, redeem'd forever, nought but sin our souls can sever from the Saviour who has bought us, from the Spirit who has taught us. Lord! renew us day by day, never let us fall away.

  

  Cecil Frances Alexander
  • Soul
  • Fall
  • Forever

• The Left is my family. And it is threatened by terrible demons, like differentialism. "differentialist Left" are people who have learned nothing about tolerance. Or justice. People who, hiding behind a backward sense of tolerance and justice, explain to us that we must accept all the actions of all civilizations, including the stoning of adulterous wives or the mutilation of little girls.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • Justice
  • Learned
  • Tolerance

• The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Praise
  • Free Men
  • Condescension