Quotes with great-grandfather

Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 2185.

  • Og Mandino Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Caroll Spinney Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Thomas Paine Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Gerald R. Ford Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
    Gerald R. Ford
    American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Candice S. Miller Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.
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  • Carol P. Christ Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Carson McCullers Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
    The New York Times (3 December 1978)
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Arthur Levitt Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Barry Gibb Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Aaron Sorkin Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Bill Clinton Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
    Second inaugural address
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ben Okri Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Frederick the Great Our work is to present things that are as they are.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Bernard Beckett Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington Out of the north Atlantic a January storm came down in the night, sweeping the American coast with wind and snow and sleet upon a great oblique front from Nova Scotia to the Delaware capes.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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