Celia Thaxter (Celia Laighton Thaxter) Quotes
This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.Celia Thaxter
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
Barton Gellman -
All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
Gary Johnson -
Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
Larry Page -
Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
Aaron Neville -
I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
Zainab Salbi
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
Nat Turner -
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian -
Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.
Takeshi Uchiyamada -
'The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'' 4
Pat Robertson -
The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
Wallace Stevens -
I'm going to fire everybody - that’s how. You're either going to stop leaking, or you're going to get fired. If I've got to get the thing down to me and Sarah Huckabee, then the leaking will stop.
Anthony Scaramucci
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
Bernardo Bertolucci -
I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.
Philippe Petit -
I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.
Charles Petzold -
I was put here to sing.
Ronald Isley The Isley Brothers -
Honor is the reward of virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.
Neal Asher
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Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that art is. All we want to do is transform the negative emotions into light. We want to compost them into light.
Sandra Cisneros -
I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.
Rand Paul -
A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
Naomi Judd -
I took obedience, agility, and shepherding with my dog.
Annaleigh Ashford -
I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
Donald Miller -
This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.
Celia Thaxter