Top 84 Mildred's Quotes
#1. [An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.
Mildred H. McAfee
#2. I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small grocery store. We lived in a nice apartment, always had enough to eat, and I had my own room. I never was aware of the Great Depression.
Harry Markowitz
#3. In 1958, they [Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter] lived in the small town of Central Point, Virginia, where people every shade from the color of chamomile tea to summer midnight made their homes.
Selina Alko
#4. Being a woman is interesting, but it shouldn't stop you from being a person.
Mildred H. McAfee
#5. There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there.
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
#6. Whatever can be known of earth we know, Sneered Europe's wise men, in their snail shells curled; No! said one man in Genoa, and that No Out of the dark created the New World. - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL CONTENTS
Mildred Stapley Byne
#7. I love the 'Mildred Pierce' miniseries.
Ben Bass
#8. The words came so fast they seemed to roll down hill. Nobody ever calls it all that; it's just spring wheat, but I like the words. They heap up and make a picture of a spring that's slow to come, when the ground stays frozen late into March and the air is raw, and the skies are sulky and dark
Mildred Walker
#9. flute. As I stood in the doorway, he lingered over it, then, carefully rewrapping it, placed it in his box of treasured things. I never saw the flute again. *
Mildred D. Taylor
#10. I ain't saying you can't do it, Moe. Papa say you can do jus' 'bout anything you set your mind to do, you work hard enough.
Mildred D. Taylor
#11. If all who love one another were of the same opinion, living would be monotonous, and conversation flabby. So cheer up. You are content. All me to be.
Mildred Aldrich
#12. He was enthusiastic about everything, but when she came in with the pie he grew positively lyrical.
James M. Cain
#13. I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.
Mildred D. Taylor
#14. When you do something you are proud of, praise yourself for it.
Mildred Newman
#15. (Her husband's departure ... ) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.
From Butterfly on F street
Edward P. Jones
#16. [On the camel:] When it kneels to be laden it always grumbles, growls and shows resentment, but of this the driver takes no notice. He goes on loading up until the moment when the beast suddenly becomes silent; then he knows that the burden is heavy enough, and nothing more is added.
Mildred Cable
#17. Much blood has been needlessly spilt in history, and the Christian witness has been needlessly clouded, simply because men have equated their opinions with the authority of the Bible itself by fallacious logic.
Mildred Bangs Wynkoop
#18. People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
#19. Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis ... Maybe one day whites and blacks can be real friends, but right now the country ain't built that way.
Mildred D. Taylor
#20. One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
#21. Sometimes it takes a long, long time before we can glean enrichment from the deprivation and suffering which has baffled and overwhelmed us. - Mildred Tengbom
Susan Lenzkes
#22. So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible
Mildred D. Taylor
#23. Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.
Mildred Dresselhaus
#24. After all, the bible was always talking about miracles. i figured that if Daniel could get out of the lion's den alive and Jonah could come up unharmed from the belly of a whale, then surely ole T.j. could get out of going to prison.
Mildred D. Taylor
#25. It is certainly not true that the population can be easily divided into those who lead healthy lifestyles, and those who do not: most people's patterns are mixed, with both good and bad areas of life.
Mildred Blaxter
#26. But they wrote like little old men and little old ladies, all purseymouthed and ooo, don't slip on that icy patch, Mildred.
Stephen King
#28. In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk.
David Foster Wallace
#29. Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.
Mildred D. Taylor
#30. What matters is that I have found a sort of peace in a primative God outside of theories and abstractions.
Mildred Jordan
#31. Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.
Mildred Blaxter
#32. Up close, she could see the sharp, cold, look that she constantly shot at Mr. Treviso, particularly when there was a break, and she was waiting to come in. It shattered illusion for Mildred. She preferred to remain at a distance, to enjoy this child as she seemed, rather than as she was.
James M. Cain
#33. The way to whistle for a horse is to purse your lips together loosely, blow moderately hard and sing "Whee-oo! Whee-oo! Whee-oo!" in a high-pitched voice. Try it. You can do it.
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
#35. If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.
Joan Crawford
#36. By nine, Mildred was powdered, puffed, perfumed, and patted to that state of semi-transparency that a woman seems to achieve when she is really dressed to go out.
James M. Cain
#37. Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education.
Mildred Blaxter
#38. The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.
Mildred Fay Jefferson
#39. I am counting on nothing but the facts about me. So come on, Future. I've my back against the past. Anyway, as you see, it is too late to argue. I've crossed the Rubicon, and can return only when I have built a new bridge.
Mildred Aldrich
#40. My entry into the field of hydrogen came as a great surprise. President Bush of the United States was interested in hydrogen for energy applications, and I was asked to chair a committee on hydrogen for the Department of Energy.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
#41. But that was another Mildred so deep inside this one, and so bothered, really bothered, that the two women had never met.
Ray Bradbury
#43. Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.
Mildred Blaxter
#44. [On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies.
Mildred Cable
#45. I did my first nude scene in Mildred Pierce, and that was absolutely terrifying, but it was for an important part of the film and for a reason, and it's incredibly powerful. It's not gratuitous. I think the stuff they show on MTV is so much worse.
Evan Rachel Wood
#46. All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
#47. The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life,
Mildred Fay Jefferson
#49. Mildred waves Carlos over. 'Let me look at you.' She eyes him up and down. 'I saw you when you walked in. What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan.'
'I suspect I am a hooligan,' he says to her. 'Whatever that means.
Simone Elkeles
#50. Mildred had had a few men friends after that, but she never really loved any of them. None could ever compete with the one that got away.
Fannie Flagg
#51. History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.
Mildred Cable
#52. The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).
Manny Farber
#53. God provides the men and women needed for each generation.
Mildred Cable
#54. Big Ma didn't need to say any more and she didn't. T.J. was far from her favorite person and it was quite obvious that Stacey and I owed our good fortune entirely to T.J.'s obnoxious personality.
Mildred D. Taylor
#55. Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.
Kate Winslet
#56. I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was confident that I would one day be a writer.
Mildred D. Taylor
#57. Ruth Bracket's arms moved backward and forward in rhythmic motion. She was rowing, yet no sound came from her oarlocks. Oars and oarlocks were padded. She liked it best that way. Why? Mystery - that magic word "mystery." How she loved it!
Mildred A. Wirt
#58. Dear Mildred,' he smiled, 'you are not the kind of person to expect things as your right even though they may be.
Barbara Pym
#59. An ordinary supervisor is a boss. A Super Supervisor is a leader. People avoid bosses, they follow leaders.
Mildred Ramsey
#60. Keep out of this, please, will you, Mildred? A child isn't a toy." "Oh," she said, "they grow up. Time does it more than fathers and mothers. The parents take too much credit.
Saul Bellow
#61. It's tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there's gonna be somebody trying to take what you got and trying to drag you down. It's up to you whether you let them or not.
Mildred D. Taylor
#62. Without water the desert is nothing but a grave ...
Mildred Cable
#63. I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#64. Now one day, maybe I can forgive John Andersen for what he done to these trees, but I ain't gonna forget it. I figure forgiving is not letting something nag at you - rotting you out.
Mildred D. Taylor
#65. What life she had left could be measured in hours. Small recompense though they were, they belonged to me now. I had only to claim them.
Kim Van Alkemade
#66. At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
#67. The perfect man is someone you love who also loves you.
Mildred Newman
#68. I'm happy to keep doing science and being a mentor to anyone who asks for advice.
Mildred Dresselhaus
#69. We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.
Mildred D. Taylor
#70. There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.
Mildred D. Taylor
#71. When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
#72. We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.
Mildred Newman
#74. Then if you want something and it's a good thing and you got it in the right way, you better hang on to it and don't let nobody talk you out of it. You care what a lot of useless people say 'bout you you'll never get anywhere, 'cause there's a lotta folks don't want you to make it.
Mildred D. Taylor
#75. Times being like they is and all. But I figure times been hard all my life. Now don't seem so much worse'n any other.
Mildred D. Taylor
#76. If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
Mildred H. McAfee
#77. Health is not, in the minds of most people, a unitary concept. It is multi-dimensional, and it is quite possible to have 'good' health in one respect, but 'bad' in another.
Mildred Blaxter
#78. We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier ... Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation.
Barbara Pym
#79. Military training is a popular choice for both male and female transsexuals because it gives them not only a place to belong but also a strong sense of group affiliation.
Mildred L. Brown
#80. But you know I am not of the "afraid" kind. I am not boasting. That is a characteristic, not a quality. One is afraid or one is not. It happens that I am not.
Mildred Aldrich
#81. Perhaps, Herr Ditzen, it is less important where one lives than how one lives.
Erik Larson
#82. A carbon nanotube is just a graphene sheet that's rolled up seamlessly, and this happens in nature; carbon nanotubes are found in mineral deposits around the planet.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
#83. Roll of thunder hear my cry Over the water bye and bye Ole man comin' down the line Whip in hand to beat me down But I ain't gonna let him Turn me 'round
Mildred D. Taylor
#84. She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!"
"Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she ain't hurt!
Mildred D. Taylor
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