Edward Thomas Quotes

If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter.

Edward Thomas

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• I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Good
  • Chance
  • Try

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Chance

• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Change
  • Chance
  • Changes

• I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Fear
  • Chance
  • Same

• In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Country
  • School
  • Best

• I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Giving
  • Rose

• Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.

  Gail Devers
  • Believe
  • True
  • Proud

• I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Daughter
  • Object
  • Flash

• Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Chance

• I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • American
  • America

• Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Dad

• As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Daughter
  • Satisfied

• Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Lidern.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Rose
  • Lust

• A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Morning
  • Horse
  • Rose

• Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Women
  • Political

• When I was a kid, I wanted to fight Joe Louis. But I think if I had seen Mike Tyson at that time, I would have said, 'Nah, I don't want to fight him.' He's deadly. He could have been one of the great heavyweight champions. But he goofed.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Time
  • Great

• Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Team
  • Best
  • Football

• Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.

  

  Jennifer Grey
  • Famous

• If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter.

  

  Edward Thomas
  • Chance
  • Daughter
  • Rose