Quotes with great-grandparents

Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 2174.

  • Francis Bacon Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Bill Pullman Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching.
    Bill Pullman
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Plato Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Horace Walpole Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Bojana Novakovic On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.
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  • William Hamilton On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
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  • Avi Arad On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Richard Nixon Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bess Myerson Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Richard Nixon Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream - if it is intended that you stay there.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Calvin Trillin One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Ben Affleck One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Jane Austen One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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