Quotes with great-grandfather

Quotes 821 till 840 of 2185.

  • Charles Darwin If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Russell Hoban If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Seneca If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Buzz Aldrin If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Leon Trotsky If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Bodhidharma If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Cavett Robert If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.
    Cavett Robert
    American businessman and founder of the National Speakers Association (1907 - 1997)
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  • Hesiod If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Ben Brantley If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Burgess Owens If you apologize to me, I look at it as an insult because my parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, like every other culture out there, did exactly what they needed to do. They worked hard, and they became part of the American way, and they earned the respect of Americans across the board. We need to do the same.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Robert Frost If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Bill Bryson If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Austan Goolsbee If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Roman Polanski If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
    Roman Polanski
    Polish-French actor and filmmaker (1933 - )
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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
    British painter (1723 - 1792)
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  • Ann Landers If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Cass Sunstein If you like dark movies or light movies, 'The Empire Strikes Back' is one of the great movies of all time. It's probably the greatest movie of all time. 'A New Hope' is a superb movie. It's probably the second-greatest movie of all time, but 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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