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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Alexander McCall Smith

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

3 December 2020 Robert Collier

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

3 December 2020 Erykah Badu

No one chooses to raise children alone.

3 December 2020 Marco Rubio

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

3 December 2020 Lauren Myracle

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don’t turn into that grown-up who they won’t come to.

3 December 2020 Thurgood Marshall

Today’s Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

3 December 2020 Brendan Behan

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

3 December 2020 Danny Glover

Well I don’t know because I don’t have a real relationship with the industry.

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

3 December 2020 Mo Rocca

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character – teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

3 December 2020 Sue Kelly

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he’s a great military man.

3 December 2020 Susan Sontag

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

3 December 2020 Sienna Miller

I think as a young actress, it’s very rare that you read something where you’re not either ‘the girl’ or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

3 December 2020 Anne Sullivan

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!

3 December 2020 Keith Richards

To me, as long as we’ve known each other, I’ve always thought Mick’s most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

3 December 2020 Bill Gates

I spend a lot of time reading.

3 December 2020 Danica Patrick

I think there’s a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.

3 December 2020 Donald Rumsfeld

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It’s not 3,000. It’s tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

3 December 2020 George M. Cohan

Hurried and worried until we’re buried, and there’s no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

3 December 2020 Brooke Burke

I’ve tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine.

3 December 2020 Michael Morpurgo

Don’t worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

3 December 2020 Tony Dungy

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.

3 December 2020 Kin Hubbard

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

3 December 2020 Edouard Manet

It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

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