Alice Morse Earle Quotes
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.Alice Morse Earle
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
Kate Forsyth -
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Queen Elizabeth II -
You can't just let nature run wild.
Walt Disney -
I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
Frances McDormand -
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Walter Dean Myers -
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
Fairuza Balk
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
Adam Dell -
When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
Halsey -
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch -
There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
Harold Pinter -
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
Quentin Tarantino -
I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
Gareth Gates
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
Brown Campbell -
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
Karen Armstrong -
Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
Gary Ross -
Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
Xavier Rudd -
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
Flannery O'Connor -
We grow small trying to be great.
E. Stanley Jones
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You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.
Eric Cantona -
Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.
Mary McGrory -
Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
John Irving -
I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.
Alice Morse Earle