Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.
Bruce Feiler -
When mothers and fathers are supportive or each other, it makes each of their paternal jobs infinitely easier. And parents who cannot bear being in one another's presence reveal as much, if not more, to a child about romantic love as anything the mother or father might say.
Victoria Secunda -
But many more daughters of distant fathers are unable to reach orgasm, or achieve it with consistency with any man. Indeed these daughters have the most trouble in bed: for them, affection and arousal are synonymous with rejection.
Victoria Secunda -
It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
Oscar Wilde -
One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.
Armand Hammer
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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
Oscar Wilde -
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost -
All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.
James Cook -
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.
Aristotle -
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali -
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
Plato
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Man is a biped without feathers.
Plato -
The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.
Mahatma Gandhi -
But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer.
Galileo Galilei -
I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.
Rene Descartes -
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Homer -
I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
Laura Osnes
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Americans give you the violence, Europeans give you the sex. I think people have been saying that since the 70s. And I think it's kind of pathetic that Americans are still stuck - on the shock value of violence, when sex is such a natural thing for everybody.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine -
Our perception of time is indeed our reality.
Brigid Schulte -
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.
Christina Aguilera -
That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe