One Day Quotes - Page 2

• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Son

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.

  Shari Arison

  Heart, Next Day, Important

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• Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Science, Brave

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• I cannot live one day without love.

  Catherine the Great

  Hearing Music, Without Love

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• Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Flower, Animal

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.28, Gibbs Smith

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• Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

  Margaret of Valois

  Enemy, Use, Might

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• We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

  Peter Forsyth

  Prayer, Heaven, Answers

  Peter Taylor Forsyth, Eugene H. Peterson (1916). “The Soul of Prayer”, p.12, Regent College Publishing

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• When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like children at a distance. I wondered if I'd like them up close. I wondered why I didn't have any. I wondered if it was a mistake, or if I'd done it on purpose, or what. And I noticed my therapist didn't have any children either. He had pictures of his cats on the wall. Framed.

  Spalding Gray

  Children, Wall, Mistake

  Spalding Gray (2005). “Swimming to Cambodia”, p.32, Theatre Communications Group

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• If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fun, Done, Stuff

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• Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Experience, Juice, Dry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.661, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Remember

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• You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Order, Shoes, Next

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.49, A&C Black

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• Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, War, Men

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• One day I'd like to go to the Moon and look at the planet Earth and say, 'Wow, there's part of my portfolio.'

  Paul Orfalea

  Moon, Looks, Earth

  "The One Percent". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hurt, Laughing, Remember Something

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

  Tanya Tucker

  Thinking, Pick Me Up, Bed

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• I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.

  Ronnie Shakes

  God, Knows

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• Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Grateful, Sunshine, Loss

  Mary Mapes Dodge (1866). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.262

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• The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'

  Donald Miller

  Cute, Cat, Two

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• I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Heaven, May

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• Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

  Joseph Heller

  Hands, Adjectives, Letters

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father." He weared the long hair, and after he died, the first day he come back here for to say hello to the peoples." He nice, the Jesus.

  David Sedaris

  Jesus, Father, Nice

  "Jesus Shaves" by David Sedaris, www.esquire.com. March 2000.

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• What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

  Sam Harris

  Zero, Dna, Inheritance

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

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• "You speak from your heart, young Firepaw. This will make you a stronger warrior one day." said Lionheart Tigerclaw growled. "Or it might make him give in to kittypet weakness right at the moment of attack."

  Erin Hunter

  Heart, Warrior, Giving

  "Into the Wild". Book by Erin Hunter, 2003.

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