Quotes with welcome

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  • Penelope Fitzgerald It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • Amelia Barr Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Bret Harte Last night, above the whistling wind, I heard the welcome rain, — A fusillade upon the roof, A tattoo on the pane: The keyhole piped; the chimney-top A warlike trumpet blew.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Bill Engvall My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome to my world.
    Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Anne Perry Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Plautus No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Bill Cosby People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed. It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Billy Collins Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Mao Tse-Tung So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Barbara Hall That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself.
    Northern Exposure Northern Hospitality
    Barbara Hall
    American television writer and producer (1960 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Napoleon The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Lord George Byron The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Roy Hattersley The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
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  • John F. Kennedy There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt They are unanimous in their hate for me; and I welcome their hatred.
    Speech 31-10-1936
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Asa Hutchinson We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • André Gide Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Grace Speare Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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