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.
Quotes to Explore
-
The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
-
When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
-
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.
-
One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
-
Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
-
If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
-
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
-
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
-
Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.
-
I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
-
All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
-
I believe I was born for this, to tell people about the Lord. I just wanted to find the best way that I could do it, and music, God graced me to be able to do it, and that was the way that I chose to be effective and tell people that the Lord loves them.
-
I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.
-
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
-
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
-
Part of Mother went with them. It is an acrobatic feat that only mothers can understand, this ability to be with every child.
