Cicely Mary Barker Quotes

Tis I whom children love the best; My wealth is all for them; For them is set each glossy cup Upon each sturdy stem.

Cicely Mary Barker

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• Wealth

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• I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • Something

• I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Age
  • Industry
  • Ageing

• I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Old
  • Jeans
  • Boots

• This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Process
  • Alchemy
  • Smith

• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Choice

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Church
  • Years
  • Child

• Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Life
  • Done
  • Anticipation

• Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Work
  • Long
  • Women

• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Violence

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • World
  • Business
  • Today

• For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • Music
  • Night

• The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Progress
  • Roads
  • Volition

• No matter how you're feeling, a little dog gunna love you.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Love
  • You
  • Feeling

• How to get over the river was the bother. At last, after thinking a heap about it, I came to the conclusion that I always did: that the boldest plan is the best and safest.

  

  James Butler Hickok
  • Best
  • Plan
  • Safest

• We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Day

• Tis I whom children love the best; My wealth is all for them; For them is set each glossy cup Upon each sturdy stem.

  

  Cicely Mary Barker
  • Children
  • Love
  • Best