Quotes with great-grandparents

Quotes 581 till 600 of 2174.

  • William Hazlitt Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • John Dryden Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Daisetz T. Suzuki Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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  • Samuel Johnson Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anita Brookner Great writers are the saints for the godless.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ben Horowitz Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have encouraged me in my life to live strong for Christ. My church is a place where I can develop friendships with others that will encourage me in my walk with Christ.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Black Elk Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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  • Bobby Flay Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Samuel Beckett Habit is a great deadener.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Carole King Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe during World War II, or I might not have been born at all. Instead, I was born in 1942 in New York City.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bill Plympton Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bertrand Russell Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Sydney Smith Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Walt Whitman Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Thomas à Kempis He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Charles Lamb He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Ben Jonson He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
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    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Samuel Johnson He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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