Quotes with great-grandfather

Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 2185.

  • Olive Schreiner There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Carol Leifer There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • George Herbert There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Josh Billings There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Aaron Sorkin There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Bryan Adams There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Barry Eisler There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Bill Pullman There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.
    Bill Pullman
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Billy Crudup There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Bryan Adams There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Bill Paxton There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Brea Grant There's something really amazing about watching an actor like Michael C. Hall or Jennifer Carpenter, who are completely professional and do everything so brilliantly, but yet can have a really great time on set.
    Brea Grant
    American actress and writer (1981 - )
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  • Ben Affleck There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Winston Churchill These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Abigail Adams These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.
    Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 January 1780
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Caleb Cushing These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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