Be Good Quotes - Page 28

• Don’t be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.

  C.E. Murphy

  Sorry, Hero, Don't Be Sorry

  C.E. Murphy (2012). “Raven Calls”, p.318, LUNA

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• Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.

  Toni Morrison

  Mean, Being Me, Being Mean

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility--both credit and blame--for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the more we tend to see ourselves as making or breaking our children.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Responsibility, Parent

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Life, Color, Design

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal family man. Children were taught primarily to be good to their families. To revere gods, one's parents, and the laws of the state were the primary lessons for Roman boys. Cicero described the goal of their child rearing as "self- control, combined with dutiful affection to parents, and kindliness to kindred.

  C. Sommerville

  Christian, Children, Character

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• Something needn't be large to be good.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Elizabeth Bishop, George Monteiro (1996). “Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop”, p.24, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself. Spray paint is impossible. They say it takes a decade to really learn spray paint and be good with it. I've been at it about ten years now and am now really just getting good and confident with it.

  Alec Monopoly

  Mom, Teacher, Home

  Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com.

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• I could have been, and may one day well be a high school English teacher, because I've been given so much I just feel like I have to give something back. The fact that some people consider my work to be good or strong, it's nice, but I know in my heart that if it's not coming - oftentimes it's probably not coming from the best place.

  James McBride

  Teacher, Strong, Nice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.

  Rafe Esquith

  Tragedy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We created the spirituals. We created so much great music, jazz chief amongst our innovations, teaching us how to prize ourselves and how to speak to one another, that our kids don't know that achievement, there's no way in the world that could be good for us.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Teaching, Kids, Achievement

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What I say is it's not that Obama hates America. It's not that he's a traitor, that he's a secret Muslim, that he's a Manchurian Candidate. He simply subscribes to an ideology that thinks it would be good for America to have a diminished economy and a diminished role in the world. In other words, Obama is all about what he perceives as global justice.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Hate, Thinking, America

  "EXCLUSIVE: '2016 Obama's America' Filmmaker Reacts To President's Slam; Looking For Network To Air Before Election; Says Mainstream Media Refusing Coverage". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good.

  David B. Haight

  Opportunity, People, Influence

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• I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.

  Banksy

  Drawing, Sound, May

  "Graffiti artist Banksy SPOTTED for second time in a month - this time in Lake District bistro" by Jeremy Armstrong, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2015.

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• There's gonna be good times and bad times. When the good times come you got to ride it as long as you can. And when the bad times come you got to battle and try to get out of there as soon as you can.

  Carlos Delgado

  Long, Trying, Battle

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• There's going to be good plays that happen and bad plays that happen, but at the end of the day, when you have the chance to hit a big play, you have to hit it.

  Andy Dalton

  Play, The End Of The Day, Chance

  Press Conference, www.bengals.com. July 25, 2013.

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• My dad taught me that you have to work hard for anything you want in life, and I wanted to be good at playing basketball.

  Seimone Augustus

  Basketball, Dad, Hard Work

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• Anybody can be good when things are going good, but a real player steps up when things are going bad.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Real, Player, Steps

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• If you can't be good, be good at it!

  David Adam

  Ifs

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• Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

  Bill Parcells

  Letting Go, Good Enough, Enough

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• Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad.

  A. J. McLean

  Good Luck, Skulls, People

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• The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Writing, Sublime, Lessons

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• I am sorry they began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of their members. Nothing can justify this example but the innocence of their intentions and ignorance of the value of public discussions. I have no doubt that all their other measures will be good and wise. It is really an assembly of demigods.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Sorry, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.228

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• I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.

  Will Rogers

  Long, People, Ems

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• That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.

  Alanis Morissette

  Would Be, Overwhelmed, Numb

  Song: That I Would Be Good, Album: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998

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• A man I respected very early in my career told me, 'If you wanna truly be good at this, you have to learn to hate.'

  Triple H

  Hate, Men, Careers

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