Jimmy Buffett Quotes

And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

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• I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Study first, play afterwards.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Play
  • Study
  • First

• A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Children
  • Society
  • Smiling

• Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Words
  • Dangerous
  • Safe

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Children
  • Movie
  • You

• There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • College
  • Play
  • Style

• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Future
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • You
  • Wall

• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Play
  • Drunk
  • Director

• Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Children
  • Same

• I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Children
  • Worry

• You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Children
  • Book
  • Difficult

• I've always refused to play terrorists.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Play
  • Always
  • Refused

• The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Today

• I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Music
  • Play
  • Dance

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Judge

• I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Children
  • Real
  • School

• Sexual Harassment Legislation often creates a hostile environment, an environment of female-as-child.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Environment

• I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Worry
  • Financial

• I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.

  

  Mirriam Johnson
  • Words
  • Missing

• What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Reality
  • Story
  • Happened

• And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Children
  • Play
  • Wind