Helen Quotes

• No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Victory, Important, Overcoming

  "An Intimate History of Humanity". Book by Theodore Zeldin, 1994.

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• Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

  Thomas Nashe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Queens

  1592 'A Litany in Time of Plague'.

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• Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President.

  Ann Coulter

  White, House, President

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.17, Crown Forum

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• Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

  Erma Bombeck

  Success, Determination, Greatness

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• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Home, Hair

  "To Helen" l. 8 (1831)

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• What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Paris, Bed

  'Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The Stare's Nest by my Window'

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• Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.

  Seamus Heaney

  Home, Circles, House

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• Did you get Mom a birthday present?" Helen asked. "Yes," Gansey replied. "Myself." "The gift that keeps on giving." "I don't think that minor children are required to get gifts for their parents. I'm a dependent. That's the definition of dependent, is it not?" "You, a dependent!" his sister said, and laughed. "You haven't been a dependent since you were four. You went straight from kindergarten to old man with a studio apartment.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mom, Children, Men

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• Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.

  Carolyn Cassady

  Moving, Book, Cities

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• Helen Rosevere was a British medical missionary in the Congo years ago during an uprising. Her faith was strong and her trust was confident, yet she was raped and assaulted and treated brutally. Commenting later, she said, "I must ask myself a question as if it came directly from the Lord, 'Can you thank Me for trusting you with this experience even if I never tell you why?'" What a profound thought. God has trusted each of us with our own set of unfair circumstances and unexplained experiences to deal with. Can we still trust in Him even if He never tells us why?

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Strong, Years, Uprising

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• O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Wrinkles, Mirrors

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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• If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense? What year did Jesus think it was?

  George Carlin

  Jesus, Stupid, Thinking

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• When I was a kid, I had THE biggest crush on Helen Reddy. I mean like for REAL crush - like 'spend some time in the bathroom thinking about her' crush. I blme Pete's Dragon. There she was - flushed, singing, clas in a tight wet plaid shirt. Judas Priest she was fabulous.

  Corey Taylor

  Crush, Real, Mean

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• Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

  Om Puri

  Mind, Would Be, Way

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• The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Interview with Gary Oldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.

  James Stewart

  New York, Years, Two

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• I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

  Margaret Atwood

  Saws, Doe, Film

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• [Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.

  Sam Heughan

  Vices, Connections, Village

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight of the people for economic justice. That's why it was so interesting to find myself back with Sister Helen [in Dead Man Walking], this new breed of nuns who were making a difference in the community.

  Susan Sarandon

  Country, Fighting, Men

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Long, Elegance, Admirer

  "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.

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• Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It's one way of better understanding your experience, comparing it to other possible experiences you can imagine having.

  Laura Mullen

  Taken, Writing, Differences

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm always interested in something that Helen Mirren is doing. I thought her series Prime Suspect was unbelievable. I think she might be my favorite actress.

  Julie Halston

  Thinking, Might, Actresses

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I haven't read the comic book. I didn't even know there was one until about halfway though. Helen Mirren and I were talking about that actually, who also felt kind of silly. When we had to run she was like, 'Oh God, we're both going to get fired.' The running sequences, it's a particular kind of humiliation because it's fun.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Running, Fun, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the actual reality. (On photographs by Helen Levitt)

  James Agee

  Eye, Artist, Reality

  Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

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