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My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
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My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.
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My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.
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My grandfather learned to swim in the Navy by getting thrown off a boat into the ocean. He had to learn fast. And I think I learn pretty well under pressure.
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My grandmother and my father always said I would end up as a missionary. Well, I feel like I am one now.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
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My objection to Liberalism is this - that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind - namely, politics - of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.
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My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.'
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
Henrietta Temple (1837) VI, 24 -
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
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Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in that direction see clearly. They do not speak all the truth, but they generally speak the truth from one point of view; so far as that goes, attend to them.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. If you want to wear a polka-dot shirt and some crazy pants, you can get away with it there.
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News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.
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