Laurel Aitken Quotes

#1. Tom Brokaw was never young.

Adam McKay

#2. Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.

John Ruskin

#3. The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.

Mark Zandi

#4. My parents didn't play golf.

Amy Alcott

#5. I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe.

Colleen Hanabusa

#6. I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

Samuel Wilson

#7. This is where happiness sneaks up on you, and you forgive evil people for unforgivable things because they give you a taste of a future you always thought was beyond your reach.

Laura Thalassa

#8. Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#9. We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.

Virginia McKenna

#10. Directing myself definitely made me a better actor. And, you know, I think actors have the best track record when they turn to directing. Writers, too. I knew how to direct actors because I've been there and I know what I like.

Matt Dillon

#11. I give praise and honor to the Holy one of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for the blessing of motherhood.

Emunah Y'srael

#12. I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas.

Chuck Cannon

#13. Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps ... one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

Amy Carmichael

#14. In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence. It

George MacDonald Fraser

#15. When the gravity of death first touched me, I'd found preoccupation with the minutiae of daily life meaningless. If we ultimately die, and turn to dust in the ground, should it ever truly upset us if the floor hasn't been swept quite recently enough.

Shirin Ebadi