Quotes with great-grandparents

Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 2174.

  • Bernadette Peters Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Ruskin Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Success has always been a great liar.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • David Rockefeller Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
    David Rockefeller
    American banker (1915 - 2017)
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  • Virgil Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Bob Thaves Sure he [Fred Astaire] was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did,... backwards and in high heels.
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  • Barbara Hershey Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Antonio Guterres Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
    Deborah Amos on Syria’s Refugee Crisis (2013)
    Antonio Guterres
    Portuguese politician and UN Secretary General (1949 - )
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  • Donald Trump Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Brad Feld Taking a great new idea with an entrepreneurial team that wants to create something significant and trying to build a real company is what is interesting.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Louisa May Alcott Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Frederick the Great Talents go by nature not by birth.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Annie Jump Cannon Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Niels Bohr Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Carrie Snow Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
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  • Bruce Forsyth Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Abdul Kalam Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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