Quotes with twenty-first

Quotes 481 till 500 of 1616.

  • A. Philip Randolph I have waited twenty-two years for this... I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
    - +
     0
  • Sir Isaac Newton I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
    - +
     0
  • Rosa Parks I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
    - +
     0
  • Brock Lesnar I know of Conor McGregor. This sport has evolved even from when I first entered the octagon. I think people are finding out that you have to talk the talk, and you have to - more importantly, you have to walk the walk.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
    - +
     0
  • Georges Bernanos I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Godfrey I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • Alice James I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Bush I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • Ernest Hemingway I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
    - +
     0
  • Sir John Vanbrugh I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.
    Sir John Vanbrugh
    English architect and dramatist (1664 - 1726)
    - +
     0
  • Agnes Macphail I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
    - +
     0
  • Asa Gray I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
    - +
     0
  • Buddy Valastro I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants!
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
    - +
     0
  • 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
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
  • George Santayana I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
    - +
     0
  • Alan Parsons I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
    - +
     0
  • A. N. Wilson I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
    - +
     0
  • A. R. Ammons I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
    Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996)
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
    - +
     0
  • Woody Allen I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
    - +
     0
All twenty-first famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 25)