Quotes with half-brother

Quotes 161 till 180 of 441.

  • Alfred Russel Wallace I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Martin Luther King I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Zig Ziglar I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Emily Brontë I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
    Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XII)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bette Davis I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Babe Ruth I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.
    Babe Ruth: his life and time by Paul Adomites, p. 172
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bill Medley I'm kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I'm half asleep, but inside I'm going about 100 miles an hour.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Oscar Wilde I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • B. B. King I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Agatha Christie I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Ben Zobrist I've been back to the Kansas City area a lot in the past. My sisters went to college in the area. My brother went to college in the area. I've got friends there, so there's some ties to the area.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Bill Paxton I've had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother's had just the opposite.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Wolfe If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Harriet Martineau If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Auberon Herbert If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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