Quotes with down-to-earth

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  • Beatrice Wood And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Bruce Catton And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.
    Bruce Cattons America: selections from his greatest works
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Barry McGuire And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bertolt Brecht And when she was finished they laid her in earth
    Flowers growing, butterflies juggling over her...
    She, so light, barely pressed the earth down
    How much pain it took to make her as light as that!
    Poems, 1913-1956 To my mother [Meiner Mutter] (May 1920), trans. Jo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Aaron Carter Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Sam Rayburn Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
    Sam Rayburn
    American politician (1882 - 1961)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bart Starr Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
    Bart Starr
    American football quarterback and coach (1934 - )
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  • Franz Kafka Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • George W. Crane Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
    George W. Crane
    American psychologist and physician
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  • Al Hirschfeld Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
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  • Billy Eckstine As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Benazir Bhutto As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Marian Anderson As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
    Marian Anderson
    African-American contralto and one (1897 - 1993)
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  • Bill Engvall As my wife says, I'll never fully retire, but it'll start to slow down. I'll continue to do the local gigs or go to Las Vegas. But I won't be going out to Ohio to play an Indian casino anymore. Those will probably go by the wayside.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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