Quotes with son—and

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  • Anne Stevenson I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Burgess Owens I played on the Jets during Namath's last four years, and we used to ask ourselves, 'When is it going to happen? When are they finally going to replace him?' We'd wait for it, week by week, but it never happened.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Adam Jones I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • William Morris I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Queen Victoria I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • A. J. McLean I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Richard Baxter I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
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  • Ralph B. Perry I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
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  • Arthur Keith I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benazir Bhutto I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. People are worried. We will bring the country out of this crisis.
    Source: At the rally in Rawalpindi after which she was assassinated. (27 December 2007)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Al Neuharth I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
    Al Neuharth
    American businessman, author, and columnist
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  • Elie Wiesel I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Buddha I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • V.S. Naipaul I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Anna Quindlen I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • William Trevor I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
    William Trevor
    Irish writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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