Charles Winthrop Quotes

#1. I was like the runner-up to Miss Mediocrity and my prize was awkward silence.

Rae Mariz

#2. Easy come, easy go ... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

Amos Bronson Alcott

#3. A star for every State, and a State for every star.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#4. My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

Anthony Browne

#5. A man ... can find comfort in words coming out of his own mouth.

C.S. Lewis

#6. There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#7. A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

Philip Larkin

#8. Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.

Trevor Dunn

#9. My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.

Adam Brown

#10. Honour is what no man can give you, and none can take away. Honour is a man's gift to himself.

Rob Roy

#11. Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#12. The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#13. To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

Herman Melville

#14. My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

James Denton

#15. Under the circumstances, she wished he would show some maturity and just accept her decision to pretend he didn't exist.

Judy Fitzwater

#16. Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#17. The gay community has taken care of their issues and problems in terms of HIV/AIDS. They have done an incredible job. We as heterosexuals need to learn from the gay community because they have rallied together. They have sent a lot of information out there. They go get tested.

Magic Johnson

#18. The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#19. Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.

Robert Charles Winthrop