Christina Stead Quotes

And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

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• I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Think

• I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Moving
  • Dog
  • Face

• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Hand

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Country
  • Fighting
  • Name

• The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • Free
  • Small

• I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Country
  • Home
  • Player

• All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • God
  • Men
  • College

• The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Best
  • Gold
  • Redemption

• To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • True
  • Hand
  • Virtue

• I love purple because my name is Amethyst.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Name
  • Purple
  • Amethyst

• Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.

  

  Garth Stein
  • She
  • Dog
  • Sweet

• To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

  

  Ma Long
  • Long
  • Career
  • Dream

• I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • Home
  • Day

• If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Dog

• Don't bail. The best of the gold’s at the bottom of barrels of crap.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Gold

• My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Name
  • Native

• After the 2013 World Championships, I had three goals for the Olympics: to swim 3:56 or better in the 400-meter freestyle, break 8:05 in the 800, and win gold in the 200. I achieved all of those, and soon, it will be time to set some new goals.

  

  Katie Ledecky
  • Time
  • World
  • Goals

• Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Dog
  • Fearless
  • Gloves

• I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Romantic

• I'm a little bit anally retentive, a little bit OCD, but a whole lot clean.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Little
  • Clean
  • Little Bit

• I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.

  

  Eamon Dunphy
  • Memorable
  • Division
  • Thirds

• And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

  

  Christina Stead
  • Hand
  • Dog
  • Gold