Reclaims Quotes

#1. She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.

Ellen Tauscher

#3. You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks.

Michael Connelly

#4. On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.

Virginia Postrel

#5. I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

Robbie Williams

#6. The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

Jonathan Swift

#7. For 82 minutes, 'The Little Mermaid' reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment. Live-action filmmakers, see this and try to top it. Go on and try.

Richard Corliss

#8. Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled- looking woods- a reminder of just how swiftly nature reclaims the land in America.

Bill Bryson

#9. Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.

Gavin Newsom

#10. Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.

Lyn Gardner

#11. Just as demagogues lead their well-intentioned followers into tragedy, so the jungle inevitable reclaims it's own.

Jeff Gunn

#12. Nothing distresses the civilized person like unfettered nature. The Grand Canyon seen from behind the railing is indeed a splendid sight, but as soon as the desert reclaims your golf course that is another matter altogether.

Anthony Marais

#13. Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind.

Jennifer Elisabeth

#14. Parents have the obligation to instruct their children. "Raise up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6).

Ginny Seuffert

#15. I'm not an instinctive actor.

John Thaw

#16. Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

George Steiner

#17. The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.

Emma Thompson

#18. You cannot control anyone but yourself in this life, and that means you ultimately have the choice in whether you would like life's struggles to define you and keep you down, or would you like them to fuel you to be the very best version of you that you can be.

L.K. Elliott

#19. Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#20. I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female.

Loretta Reynolds

#21. It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.

Alice Walker

#22. There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

Richard Dawkins

#23. If we act like prey, they'll act like predators

Alyxandra Harvey

#24. I think people are purists about what sketch comedy should be, and I think sometimes having too much fun can be a little annoying to some people.

Horatio Sanz

#25. Repeatedly give up their own health or their own time or their own best interests on behalf of what they perceive as the greater good - perhaps in order to consistently reinforce an imperative sense of specialness, of chosenness, of connection.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#26. It is well for men to risk dangers, for we have broad backs to bear the blows, but I marvel at the courage of women who go with us, and must think of bearing children alone, and in a far place.

Louis L'Amour