George Pope Morris Quotes

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Concentration
  • Equate
  • Pow

• Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Girl
  • Care
  • Monkey

• It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Diversity

• I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • White
  • Fruit
  • Egg

• Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Like
  • Acting

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Faces

• All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Action
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Write

• My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Good
  • Control
  • Passion

• It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Different
  • Character
  • High

• I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

  

  T-Pain
  • Religion
  • Person
  • Human

• I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Many

• All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Want
  • Married
  • Get Married

• No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Evil
  • Choices
  • Born

• There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Life
  • Stress
  • Choice

• The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Mind
  • Human

• Life is a journey which is far more enjoyable when your holding hands with the ones you love

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Life
  • Journey

• He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

  

  Confucius
  • Warrior
  • Conquer

• Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Soul
  • Humanity
  • Poetry

• It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.

  

  Sophocles
  • Marriage
  • Dreams
  • Mother`s

• She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Burden

• You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

  

  George Pope Morris
  • Desire
  • Learned
  • Labor