Kate Elliott (Alis A. Rasmussen) Quotes

We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

Kate Elliott

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• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking

• I never wrote my books especially for children.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Children
  • Never
  • Books

• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Diabetes

• I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
  • Education
  • College

• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Up
  • Home
  • Strong

• Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • You
  • Lie
  • Others

• Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • More
  • Read
  • Then

• Retired life's good, man.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Man

• We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Human

• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • American
  • Game

• It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn't right; this isn't me.' It's a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you're not feeling something that's true to your heart... everybody's gotta be true.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Shy
  • Burn
  • Dolly Parton

• I believe in much more diplomacy, not less.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Believe
  • More
  • Diplomacy

• Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Power
  • Black
  • Same

• I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Wise
  • Rejection
  • Depressing

• Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Fall
  • Moving
  • Face

• Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beginning
  • Human
  • Sides

• The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • God
  • Truth
  • Change

• When you do it from the heart, you can do no wrong.

  

  Bob Bryar My Chemical Romance
  • Heart
  • Wrong

• The world of technology is the sum total of what people do. Its redemption can only come from changes in what people, individually and collectively, do or refrain from doing. —Ursula M. Franklin

  

  Craig Detweiler
  • People
  • World
  • Technology

• For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?

  

  William Tyndale
  • Matter
  • Pope
  • Bishops

• We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

  

  Kate Elliott
  • Matter
  • Made
  • Bounds