Quotes with great-grandparents

Quotes 1381 till 1400 of 2174.

  • Billy Graham Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Pope John XXIII See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
    Pope John XXIII
    Catholic Pope from 1958-1963 (1881 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Johnson Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Andrew Marvell Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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  • Jim Rohn Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Enid Bagnold Sex - the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Ada Leverson She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.
    Tenterhooks (1912)
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Boy George She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • W. C. Fields Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Aldous Huxley Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Hazlitt Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alan Greenspan Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
    Senaats committee in 1987
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bud Abbott Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.
    Bud Abbott
    American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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