Quotes with great-grandparents

Quotes 1641 till 1660 of 2174.

  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Sam Snead The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
    Sam Snead
    American professional golfer (1912 - 2002)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Michel de Certeau The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • William Arthur Ward The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Bertrand Russell The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
    Conquest of Happiness Ch. 1: What Makes People Unhappy?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Marian Anderson The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
    Marian Anderson
    African-American contralto and one (1897 - 1993)
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  • Robert Wilson The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. IX, The Cost of the Reservoir Plan, p
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Camille Paglia The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • C. L. R. James The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Bill Rancic The most successful entrepreneurs tell you they have a great team. Lots of small-business owners let ego get in the way. Many people helped me along the way. You've got to remember the people who were loyal to you, and don't forget them when you become successful.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Martin Luther The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Cate Blanchett The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Channing Pollock The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Clark Gable The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
    Clark Gable
    American actor (1901 - 1960)
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