Twain Congress Quotes

#1. This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.

Mary Matalin

#2. Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

Mark Twain

#3. I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.

Claire Denis

#4. This girl - this thin, cold child in a hand-me-down cardigan and faded dress - hated me, not for anything I was or had done, but because I existed, in her world, and she didn't want me there.

John Burnside

#5. I like you."
"That's tough, Joan," I said, picking up my book. "Because I don't like you. You make me puke, if you want to know."
And I walked out of the room, leaving Joan lying, lumpy as an old horse, across my bed.

Sylvia Plath

#6. There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.

Mark Twain

#7. I mix my fragrances with body oils - I love body oils, so that's my little trick.

Rita Ora

#8. When congress is in session no American is safe.

Mark Twain

#9. [Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

Hal Holbrook

#10. I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

#11. Thanksgiving means thanking the givers.

Vikrmn

#12. It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

#13. Congress: America's only true criminal class.

Mark Twain

#14. Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Mark Twain

#15. Congress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless

Mark Twain

#16. Out of Mind spring in-numerable things, conditioned by discrimination (i.e., classification) and habit-energy; these things people accept as an external world. ...

Alan W. Watts

#17. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

#18. Children don't do formal learning at desks in preschool or kindergarten, they learn through playing.

Lucy Crehan

#19. It wasn't like the World Trade Center, something vile and astonishing within our own borders, happening to people who'd saved coins of the same currency in their piggybanks when they were children. I knew intellectually that shouldn't make a difference, but it seemed to.

Michael Marshall

#20. A wholesome family is one where there is a lot of love. It's living by example. It's acceptance of people at their core, but it's also pushing each other to be our best selves and try things we might not be good at.

Daphne Oz

#21. I think we are part of the earth. The concept of the rainforest being the womb of life is something I believe in ... the value system must get back to the environment as it was originally, the magnificence from where we emerged.

Ian Cohen