Clara Barton Quotes
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Quotes to Explore
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Maybe it's my freak flag that, when I go to a haunted mansion, I would rather blend in with them and be part of the story rather than have someone jump out at me. To be part of the fantasy seems way more interesting to me, to embed myself in there and just drop in, in that way.
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Xenophobia is defined as the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. That fear should not dictate the immigration dialogue any longer.
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Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.
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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
