Quotes with two-parent

Quotes 921 till 940 of 1174.

  • Edgar Quinet Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Thought is the parent of the deed.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Three can keep a secret if two are dead.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Heywood Three may keep counsel, if two are away.
    John Heywood
    English writer, playwright and poet (1497 - 1580)
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  • Carl Paladino Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Pericles Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
    Pericles
     
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  • Louise Erdrich Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Red Auerbach To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Leonard Bernstein To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • Ernest Hemingway To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Norman Douglas To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Oscar Wilde To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Marguerite Duras To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead - somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man - somewhere these, too, come together.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Babe Ruth To my little sick pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Brigid Brophy To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
    Brigid Brophy
    British novelist and critic (1929 - 1995)
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  • Mark Twain To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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