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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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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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
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The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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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.
