Clara Barton Quotes

What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

Clara Barton

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• My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fall
  • English
  • Word

• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Friendship

• We kind of like the new Outkast.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Kind
  • Like
  • New

• I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Plays

• To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Time
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Baby

• It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Heart
  • Dreams
  • Texas

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

  

  Ice T
  • Same
  • New York
  • Group

• There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Politics

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

  

  Tablo
  • Like
  • Same
  • Saying

• I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Happy

• I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.

  

  Laila Robins
  • People
  • Feel
  • Searching

• I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Remember
  • Tears
  • Actress

• We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Honest
  • Been

• When you find you have to add a feature to a program, and the program's code is not structured in a convenient way to add the feature, first refactor the program to make it easy to add the feature, then add the feature.

  

  Kent Beck

• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Fall
  • Race
  • Back

• The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Truth

• We live through the belief of children...Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Children
  • Belief
  • Suicide

• Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.

  

  George VI
  • People
  • World
  • War

• What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

  

  Clara Barton
  • War
  • Troops
  • Prisons