Quotes with old-world

Quotes 581 till 600 of 3762.

  • Adolf Loos Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Booth Tarkington Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Carl Sandburg CHICAGO: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Lydia M. Child Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • John Bradshaw Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
    John Bradshaw
    American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author (1933 - 2016)
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  • George Eliot Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Anthony Hecht Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Ben Bernanke China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Billy Graham Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Alan Dundes Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Carlo Ratti Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Arthur Peacocke Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Samuel Johnson Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Michael Harrington Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
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  • Bob Dylan Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
    Performed literature: words and music by Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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