George Scratchley Brown Quotes
We, too, are Americans.. On us, as well as on them the United States, lies the duty of preserving the honor of the continent. On us, as on them, rests the noble trust of shielding free institutions.
George Scratchley Brown
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
Rachel Cusk
There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
Saint Bernard
The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
Oliver Sim
The xx
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
Caio Fonseca
I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
Patrick Duffy
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Jane Porter
When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
Jennifer Granholm
A record like 'Price of Fame' - when you do get this success, how do you treat it, or how do you let it treat you? How does it affect your family and friends and the people around you? ... And I don't mind telling people what I've been through when it comes to the pressure I put on myself of wanting to be the best and the greatest.
Justin Scott
I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French.
Colson Whitehead
Where I went to school, Eton College, we had to wear dark trousers, a tailcoat, and a stiff, starched collar every day, and that was fine with me: Part of the reason I wanted to go there was because I've always loved dressing up.
Charlie Siem
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nestell Bovee
For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
Manuel Moroun
It's an honor to support such a worthy program. TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly.
Boomer Esiason
I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.
Axl Rose
Guns N' Roses
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
Henry Kissinger
We, too, are Americans.. On us, as well as on them the United States, lies the duty of preserving the honor of the continent. On us, as on them, rests the noble trust of shielding free institutions.
George Scratchley Brown
