Arthur Young Quotes

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• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Men
  • Quotation

• Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Age
  • Dress
  • Appropriate

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • You
  • Working

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Flower

• Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Truth
  • Actions
  • Consequences

• You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Done
  • Know
  • Bread

• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Time
  • Live
  • Day

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Always

• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

  

  Carey Williams
  • Change
  • Daughter
  • Farmer

• Cussing ain't for everybody.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Everybody

• Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Dad
  • Read
  • Minutes

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• 'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Laugh

• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Identity
  • Mysterious
  • Own

• You can observe a lot by watching.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Watching

• I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • People
  • Kids

• Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest.

  

  Epictetus
  • God
  • Mind
  • Art

• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Country
  • Why
  • Said

• For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Control
  • Trust

• The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

  

  Arthur Young
  • Life
  • God