Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes

Part of Mother went with them. It is an acrobatic feat that only mothers can understand, this ability to be with every child.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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• The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • You
  • Small
  • Seeing

• Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Country
  • American
  • Political

• I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Truth
  • You
  • Actor

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Never
  • Terrible
  • Produce

• Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Singing
  • I Can
  • Means

• If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Military
  • Organization

• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Book
  • Lost

• I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Love

• All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• War is the continuation of politics by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Politics
  • Other

• I like to accentuate the feminine form, so I'm a big fan of corsets. A woman's body is beautiful and should be shown off and celebrated. I love a simple and elegant dress that highlights my waist.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Dress

• Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Business
  • Political

• I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • She
  • Wife

• There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Tears
  • More
  • Over

• I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and ripped jeans and hoodies. On 'Awkward', it manifests in how I speak.

  

  Ashley Rickards
  • Life
  • Tree

• Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Lost

• How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

  

  Gabrielle Hamilton
  • Mother
  • Effort
  • Separation

• Part of Mother went with them. It is an acrobatic feat that only mothers can understand, this ability to be with every child.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Ability