Quotes with son—and

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  • Alfred de Vigny What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henry S. Haskins What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
    Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 120
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Seneca What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • O. S. Hawkins What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.
    O. S. Hawkins
     
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  • Lord George Byron What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bobby Hull What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bela Karolyi What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Angelina Grimke What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Brendan Myers What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Lord George Byron What men call gallantry and gods adultery Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lord George Byron What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • W. M. Thackeray What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed and not for pay? Absurd or insincere?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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