Quotes with step-parents

Quotes 81 till 100 of 435.

  • Antonio Porchia He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Kingsolver Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
    Prodigal Summer
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bobby Jindal Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alan Bean History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
    Alan Bean
    American naval officer and aviator (1932 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • Anne Frank How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
    - +
     0
  • P. J. O'Rourke I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Alva Edison I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Rimbaud I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
    - +
     0
  • Bryan Greenberg I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
    - +
     0
  • Albert Einstein I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
    - +
     0
  • Anne Tyler I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alexis de Tocqueville I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
    - +
     0
  • Malcolm X I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • Warren Buffett I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
    - +
     0
  • Toni Morrison I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
    - +
     0
  • Richard Nixon I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
    - +
     0
  • Alfred Eisenstaedt I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.
    Alfred Eisenstaedt
    German-born American photographer and photojournalist (1898 - 1995)
    - +
     0
  • Bryce Dallas Howard I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bryce Dallas Howard I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alan Alda I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
    - +
     0
All step-parents famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 5)