George Washington Quotes

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

George Washington

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• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Gratitude
  • Big
  • Manners

• As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Period

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Think
  • Boy
  • Back

• I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Thoughts
  • Dog
  • Speak

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

  

  Carl Olson
  • Relationship
  • Church
  • Catholic

• Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Union
  • Martyrdom
  • Matrimony

• If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Good
  • Think

• You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Red

• In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Play
  • Crush

• I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Human
  • Born
  • Nobility

• As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • American
  • America
  • Strong

• I'm not a confrontational person in real life, so I really don't wanna get into arguments or fistfights with people I'm making fun of.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• As we do so, our Child Within begins to awaken and eventually to flourish, grow and create. Virginia Satir said, “We need to see ourselves as basic miracles and worthy of love.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • See
  • Ourselves
  • Miracles

• Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Baseball

• Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Forget
  • Heads
  • Lift Up

• It would have been a good resignation speech for a president leaving office because of illness, or for one who had lost congressional support because of differences over policies. It was not the speech of a president who had violated his constitutional oath and duty by obstructing justice, by abusing the power of his office, by transforming the Oval Office into a mean den where perjury and low scheming became a way of life.

  

  Leon Foucault
  • Life
  • Good
  • Power

• There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

  

  George Washington
  • Knowledge
  • Happiness
  • Deserve