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Quotes 241 till 260 of 1569.

  • Anthony Holden Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • George Eliot Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bob Keeshan Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
    As quoted in Commentary: Pre-school Rankings by Susan Hoff KERA Public Newsroom (6 September 2007)
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • George W. Truett Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.
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  • John Lennon Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Bill Dedman Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ann Coulter Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Caspar David Friedrich Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
    Caspar David Friedrich: line and transparency (1984)
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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  • Bud Grant Come September, the middle of September when the first frost comes, that's hunting season. Fishing poles are hung up and the hunting season starts. You've got to be careful, if you're a hunter, that it doesn't become an obsession.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Robert Herrick Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Ben Shapiro Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Charlotte Brontë Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Basil Rathbone Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.
    Basil Rathbone
    English actor (1892 - 1967)
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  • Winston Churchill Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Aristotle Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bill Hicks Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-fucking-proposals...and the first thought that enters my mind is, And I'm not getting laid. What am I doing wrong?
    Arizona Bay
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Camille Pissarro Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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