George Washington Quotes

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

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• I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Night

• We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Broken
  • Nation
  • Divided

• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
  • Boyfriend
  • Save

• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Real
  • Want
  • Artist

• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Politics
  • Issues
  • Involved

• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Grow
  • Others
  • Invest

• I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Season

• What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Love
  • Song

• I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Same

• Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Power
  • Political
  • Earth

• The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They're some good people, you know. They want to see you do good. But at the same time, they work for the team, you know. They're trying to do whatever they can to get you back on the field and make your team look good.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Thought
  • Interest
  • My Own

• Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Will
  • Apartheid
  • Sanctions

• A cook's job in my opinion is to be creative and push the boundaries of their cuisine and never stop experimenting.

  

  Ching He Huang
  • Creative
  • Experimenting
  • Cook's job

• Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.

  

  Conrad Black
  • Opinion
  • Greed

• The majority of mankind think that they think; they acquiesce, and suppose that they argue; they flatter themselves that they are holding their own, when they have actually grown up to manhood, with scarcely a conviction that they can call their own. So it was, and so it ever shall be.

  

  E. W. Bullinger
  • Up

• Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade: Where'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Eyes
  • Cool

• Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Bird
  • Clothes