Conn Iggulden Quotes

We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

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• We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Family
  • Fashion
  • Football

• The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Me
  • Tell

• It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • Cancer
  • Australia

• When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Long
  • End
  • Patience

• I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Great
  • Bike
  • Ride

• The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Decision
  • Fight
  • Same

• A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • American
  • War
  • Government

• It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • World
  • Think
  • See

• I would love to play 'Wonder Woman'; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Love
  • Play
  • Woman

• When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Women
  • Issues
  • Mindset

• I’m still having trouble convincing Pax that underwear and pants go together – underwear is not pants!

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Together
  • Trouble
  • Pants

• Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Love
  • Everything
  • Get

• Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Music
  • Lifestyle
  • Universal

• If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.

  

  Bill Bonner
  • Source
  • Secrets
  • Old Money

• People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Me
  • Sound

• We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Grateful
  • Expect
  • Fools