Loretta Young Quotes

I don't yearn to be a child again.

Loretta Young

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Kids
  • Space
  • Crazy

• I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Anniversary
  • Her
  • Buried

• The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • View
  • Photograph
  • Bring

• I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Business
  • Man
  • Support

• It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Good
  • Why
  • Door

• Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Emotional
  • Teach

• In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Like
  • Service
  • Obsessed

• I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Story
  • Old
  • Piano

• It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Important
  • Women

• It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • People
  • You
  • Religion

• I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Political
  • Without

• I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within the protection of a literary form.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Ideas

• My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Childhood

• The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Man

• I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Want
  • Song
  • Never

• And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben,Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows whenThe world was worthy of such men.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • World
  • Men
  • Fire

• Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • People
  • God
  • Peace

• I wish I could be good at gymnastics.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Gymnastics

• If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Honor
  • Leader

• My first job was baby-sitting. I had a great time because I love kids. Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, I'm like: "Oh, you know what? I'm going to chuck it in and become a kindergarten teacher!"

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Job
  • Teacher
  • I Love

• I don't yearn to be a child again.

  

  Loretta Young