Quotes with great-grandmother

Quotes 2101 till 2120 of 2174.

  • Sir William Osler Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Sean O'Casey Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Campbell Scott Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Henry Fielding Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Colin Powell Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Carine Roitfeld Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Busy Philipps Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Alan Watts You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin Watson You can be a great father if you are willing to let God use you as an instrument.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence You can't put a great soul into a commomplace person. Commonplace persons have commonplace souls.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Carlos Slim You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Ben Carson You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Pat Riley You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde You know what a woman's curiosity is. Almost as great as a man's!
    An Ideal Husband (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bernhard Langer You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Walker Percy You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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  • Bill Huizenga You look at what happened with Chrysler, it went through that bankruptcy, and it's re-emerged in a much different fashion, privately held in some of those things, and it's really putting out a great product.
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  • Bill Maris You make a great investment in the consumer Internet, maybe you make a lot of money and create something useful, interesting, or fun. But in life sciences, you have a chance to be part of something that lets people live longer and healthier and not lose the people they care about. That is really profound.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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