George Washington Quotes

We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

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• Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Why
  • Business
  • Moral

• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Being
  • Part
  • Aqua

• I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Child

• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Heart
  • Education
  • Dreams

• One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Solar

• If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Die
  • Taken

• I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Back

• Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • School
  • Change

• In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Different
  • Night
  • City

• Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won't hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Work
  • Hurt

• If your heart is in love, you can do anything.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Heart
  • Love
  • For Her

• Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Know
  • Heartbeat
  • Clumsy

• Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Change
  • Wall
  • President

• Video has become much more social, and as a result, there are many opportunities to use video as a way to connect people, to give them opportunities to play and participate, to make things together and have a shared social experience. I think we are just at the beginning of really exploring what social video is and what we can make of it.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Experience
  • Together

• We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon, as we approached, was quite disheartening.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Nature

• I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Live
  • Done
  • Happy

• Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Convictions

• We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

  

  George Washington
  • Mind
  • Political
  • Education