George Washington Quotes

We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.

George Washington

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• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Want
  • Me
  • Dance

• I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• I don't like to talk about myself.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Talk

• I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • God
  • Know

• There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Art
  • Think

• Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Cheer

• It should not be the government running the economy.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Running
  • Government
  • Should

• I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Work
  • Job
  • Day

• What I would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the job. So, I would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If I feel comfortable in a saree for a social event, I wear it.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Work
  • Different
  • Job

• One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Country
  • Pride

• Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Me
  • Company
  • Mentor

• Don't add people to your subscriber list just because they once wrote you a note. Or once answered a note you wrote to them. Don't put your address book into your newsletter database. Let your readers sign up.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• I'm so blessed with my baby.  And I want the most normal life possible for him.  And I'll manage, I will create that.

  

  Britney Spears
  • Life
  • Baby
  • Blessed

• Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won't be able to pay it. They're missing something: that the actual price of the electronic package is going down. They've got their Internet, phone, TV, all of it. Now people are using more and more stuff for less.

  

  Jeffrey Bewkes
  • People
  • High
  • Cutting

• I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Writing
  • Survival

• Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.

  

  William Stafford
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Long

• My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, and I'm like, 'That was me growing up in Brazil!' I had the typical model body, but after babies, it changed. I look more like a woman.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Woman

• The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

  

  Euripides
  • Gods
  • Medicines
  • Venom

• I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Writing
  • Lucky
  • Very

• We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Heaven