Clara Barton Quotes

To this day my seat on a saddle or on the back of a horse is as secure and tireless as in a rocking chair, and far more pleasurable. Sometimes, in later years, when I found myself suddenly on a strange horse in a trooper's saddle, flying for life or liberty in front of pursuit, I blessed the baby lessons of the wild gallops among the beautiful colts.

Clara Barton

Quotes to Explore

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

Edmund White
- Life
- Real
- Bad
I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.

Flume
- Up
- Morning
- Person
In life, sometimes you just lose.

Karen Handel
- Life
- Sometimes
- Lose
I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

Eddie Redmayne
- Work
- Blessed
- Mistakes
I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

Tamron Hall
- Life
- Up
- Hope
I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.

Randy Pausch
- People
- Life
- Cancer