Lydia M. Child Quotes

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Lydia M. Child

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• Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Nature
  • Dream
  • Religion

• I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Money
  • Organization
  • Cutting

• Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• The world is always terrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Always
  • Terrible

• Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Political
  • Lost
  • Party

• I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Big
  • Splash

• Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Good
  • Girl

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • World
  • Good
  • Friends

• I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Funny
  • Human
  • Superior

• A closed mind is a dying mind.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Mind
  • Dying
  • Closed

• Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Why
  • May
  • Dead

• Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Past
  • Path
  • Company

• While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Marriage
  • Woman
  • Gay

• If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Day

• Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Words
  • Government

• The question 'What is Life?' is... a linguistic trap. To answer according to the rules of grammar, we must supply a noun, a thing. But life on Earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

  

  Lynn Margulis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Question

• Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

  

  Anurag Kashyap

• I would drive on streets that were one-way and think, "Why are they all honking at me?"

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Streets

• The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.

  

  Rei Kawakubo
  • People
  • Creation
  • Afraid

• Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

  

  Lydia M. Child
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Perfect