Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.

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• It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Education
  • Finish
  • Homeless

• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Sun

• Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.

  

  Ippy Aiona
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Always
  • Dare
  • Experiment

• I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Being

• We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Special

• The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Nature
  • Community
  • Ukrainian

• I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Good
  • Music
  • Words

• Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Think
  • Health
  • Better

• I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Cat

• When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Intelligent

• Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Children
  • Movie
  • Star

• A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • People
  • Fire
  • Forest

• People believed what I said was what I believed.

  

  Bob Ehrlich
  • People

• In my opinion, if you only show quality but no fighting spirit, you are half a player.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Quality
  • Fighting
  • Player

• Do one thing well, and then build from there.

  

  Peggy Johnson

• I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Up
  • School
  • War

• America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

  

  John Olver
  • World
  • Friends
  • America

• I'm in a happier place because my dreams are coming true. I'm acting in feature films, and I'm travelling the world. Before, I was just broke.

  

  Ashley Thomas
  • World
  • True

• I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Good
  • Fight
  • Debate

• 'You Must Remember This', the podcast about 'the secret and or forgotten history of Hollywood's first century', has a thread dedicated to Dead Blondes, which is a clue to where it's coming from.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Remember
  • History

• All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • War
  • Glory
  • Agony