Quotes by American/USA authors (page 34)

"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook"

William James, Philosopher

"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way"

William James, Philosopher

"I do everything that everybody else does"

Vanna White, Celebrity

"It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel too good. Something's going to happen"

Dyan Cannon, Actress

"Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language"

Gail Godwin, Novelist

"There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on"

Paul Castellano, Criminal

"I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"Pain is temporary. Pride is forever"

Mat Fraser, Athlete

"Hard work pays off"

Mat Fraser, Athlete

"The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time"

Mary Wilson Little, Writer

"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating"

O. Henry, Writer

"In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out"

Lee Grant, Actress

"O month when they who love must love and wed"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy"

Lee Grant, Actress

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

"People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day"

Lee Grant, Actress

"A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked"

Jay London, Comedian

"My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches"

Franz Boas, Scientist

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