Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes

Charity could chatter dorm-room Marxist theory with the best of them, but a single look from cool, silver-haired Lady Beddington was enough to make her tremble from head to toe.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

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• My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Women
  • Charity
  • Refugee

• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Change
  • Challenge

• Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Nature

• Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Justice
  • Charity
  • Legal

• At a time when we aim to accelerate our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a bold agenda for the period beyond 2015, the role of charity can and should grow. U.N. bodies such as the U.N. Volunteers Programme and UNICEF offer venues for people across the world to get involved.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dance
  • Charity

• My charity is called 'Grand Kids.' People keep thinking it's 'Grandkids.'

  

  Curtis Granderson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• As soon as you become of interest to the media, the charity requests start rolling in, and it's not easy saying no. But if you endorse every charity that asks you, you're not really endorsing any of them. It has to mean something.

  

  David Harewood
  • Charity

• I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Charity

• I've long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I'm sort of disconnected from them.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Long
  • Help
  • Happy

• Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

  

  Buddha
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Growth

• IRS rules generally prohibit acts of 'self-dealing,' in which a charity's leaders use the nonprofit group's money to buy things for themselves.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Money
  • Charity

• I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air trying to be a good wife and mother, trying to be the prime-ministerial consort at home and abroad, barrister and charity worker, and sometimes one of the balls gets dropped.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.

  

  John L. Lewis
  • Men
  • Children
  • Charity

• Any charity that aids or supports trying to find a cure for cancer is very close to my heart. My mom had cancer multiple times, so it's something that I can relate to.

  

  Jennette McCurdy
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Mom

• Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • Work
  • Important
  • Country

• My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Family
  • Money
  • Business

• My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

  

  Eric Idle
  • School
  • Education
  • Charity

• You only get to keep what you give away.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Giving
  • Charity
  • Generosity

• I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.

  

  Jennifer Grey
  • High
  • Parents
  • Intelligent

• I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

  

  Jane Austen
  • History
  • True
  • False

• I guess rebelliousness has been explored in many movies, but what about the smart kids' rebellion? Not just the motorcycle jackets and that kind of rebellion; it's the dorky kid - what could he do?

  

  Portia Doubleday
  • Kids
  • Smart
  • Motorcycle

• Charity could chatter dorm-room Marxist theory with the best of them, but a single look from cool, silver-haired Lady Beddington was enough to make her tremble from head to toe.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Charity
  • Tremble
  • Marxist