Mapes Quotes

#1. Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.

Floyd Abrams

#2. But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#3. Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago ...

Mary Mapes Dodge

#4. First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.

Maria Edgeworth

#5. [On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#6. I can, and do, walk the street. No one bothers me or anything, because most people wouldn't know who I am.

Paul Rudd

#7. She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#8. Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#9. A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make

Boonaa Mohammed

#10. Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.

Edna Longley

#11. What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#12. The first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first.

Ben Aaronovitch

#13. Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#14. What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium! For if we would compare the Infinite, it would surely require a greater Infinite to cause the causes of effects than to produce the effects themselves.

August Weismann

#15. [On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge ...

Mary Mapes Dodge

#16. When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

Bikram Choudhury

#17. I love to go to the gym for a couple of hours daily. Besides, I love my dancing routines; dance helps me unwind, de-stress, and introspect.

Terence Lewis

#18. But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#19. [ ... ] what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty.

Alain De Botton

#20. Faithful: When will you learn to leave well enough alone?
Alanna sighed. When I want to stop learning, I guess.

Tamora Pierce

#21. In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.

Henry Charles Carey

#22. I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#23. I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

Lajos Kossuth

#24. We should be more concerned with being ruled by fear than we are with being ruled by our imaginations.

Gregory Mapes

#25. To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.

Patti Stanger

#26. Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#27. Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter! ... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!

Mary Mapes Dodge

#28. Well, Karou had wanted to retort, with all the gravity and maturity she could muster. Duh.

Laini Taylor