Long Quotes - Page 20

• You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Mother, Children, Get Over

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.31, Sarah Orne Jewett

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's been so long since you last saw each other. She could at least smile.

  Kim Su-mi

  Drama, Lasts, Saws

  8 Copy quote

• At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Powerful, Sleep, Soul

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Inspirational, Fun, Business

  17 Copy quote

• I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy.

  David Letterman

  Baby, Voting, Alive

  6 Copy quote

• Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Faith, Spiritual, Believe

  249 Copy quote

• I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  World Government, Law, Way

  9 Copy quote

• My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Love, Men, Names

  On being sworn in as President, 9 August 1974: G. J. Lankevich 'Gerald R. Ford' (1977)

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

  John Muir

  Book, Science, Men

  5 Copy quote

• The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

  Will Rogers

  Time, Party, Political

  4 Copy quote

• Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.

  Will Rogers

  Golf, Men, Long Ago

  36 Copy quote

• If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

  Walter Cronkite

  News, Unbiased, Firsts

  "Walter Cronkite Review: 'Gawd Almighty,' Shout 'the Truths' of Liberalism" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. July 20, 2009.

  145 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Numbers, Boards

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains”, p.15, Theodore Roosevelt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hard Work, Men, Two

  Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Baseball, Ambition, Player

  4 Copy quote

• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, Book, Thinking

  16 Copy quote

• We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Trust, Heart, Storm

  207 Copy quote

• May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

  Coco Chanel

  Happy Life, Wish, May

  5 Copy quote

• He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

  Robert Moses

  Intellectual, Intelligence, Prodigies

  27 Copy quote

• If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Running, War

  "Steve Jobs obituary" by Jack Schofield, October 5, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Children, Mind

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.

  Walt Disney

  Heart, Thinking, People

  5 Copy quote

• Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  28 Copy quote

• Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

  James Herriot

  Animal, Unpredictable Things, Triumph

  James Herriot (2012). “If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

  81 Copy quote

  Show source

• No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

  Stella Adler

  Actors, Feels

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.12, Hal Leonard Corporation

  7 Copy quote

  Show source