Top 31 Alice Longworth Quotes
#3. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.
Katharine Graham
#5. I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. by Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Claudy Conn
#6. That is our Shield Ring, our last stronghold; not the barrier fells and the totter-moss between, but something in the hearts of men.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#7. People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
#8. I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.
Kathryn Bigelow
#10. You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.
Walter Schloss
#11. [On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
#14. [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
#15. I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosevelt Longworth - an exception to her negative feelings about Washington widows and single women, whom she basically found dispensable.
Katharine Graham
#16. The Warrior tries to enjoy the small everyday things of life.
Paulo Coelho
#17. I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist ... Well, a show-off anyway.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
#19. Life is very difficult. There's nothing to be ashamed of by reading self-help books. If you're stuck in a dark place it can be incredibly uplifting and hope providing to engage with those tools. So go out there and do it!!
Jim Dooley
#21. Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy - and that this has begun to be fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.
N. T. Wright
#23. There are moments when I'm struck by a deep sense of wonder.
Nicholas Sparks
#28. [Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
#30. Time tells me what I am.
I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life and my life remains.
Mark Strand