Great Moments Quotes - Page 3

• A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.

  John Locke

  Growing Up, Father, Son

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 95), 1693.

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• (Playing with Jeffster at Comic-Con) was absolutely the scariest thing I have ever done. I literally skipped over the 'what a great moment' to 'oh, my God, I can't believe I have to do this.' And when I was up there, the people were, like, "Oh, my God," and they were all screaming and stuff. But I didn't hear a thing. I was just in my own little bubble of horror and panic, utterly, utterly blanched with terror.

  Vik Sahay

  Believe, People, Done

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• There are two things I enjoy most about my work. First, I get to work with interesting and enthusiastic people who are also fired up about science. Second, every once in a while I have moments in which I suddenly understand the solution to a problem that I've been working on - those are great moments.

  David J. Anderson

  Two, People, Interesting

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• Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Hypocrisy, Slavery

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

  John Tesh

  Waiting, Dying, Want

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• Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

  Mark Twain

  Half, Miserable, Moments

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• When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives.

  Federico Fellini

  Important, Busy, Moments

  Federico Fellini, Charolette Chandler (2001). “I, Fellini”, p.37, Cooper Square Press

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• So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.

  Philip K. Dick

  Heart, White, Dying

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• Looking back in retrospect, there were some great moments working with some great people, ... I don't know quite how to put it into words. I don't look at it quite the same way other people do.

  Dave Mason

  People, Retrospect, Way

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• The two great moments in human history are the day that Christ was born and the day He was raised from the dead. These are represented by Christmas and Easter - the two biggest holidays for the church. People who don't even go to church do go on these days.

  Louie Giglio

  Easter, Holiday, Two

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview With Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Sacrifice, Temples

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.202, Courier Corporation

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• How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.

  Robert Plant

  Passion, Mean, Years

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Had I had another year, I think I would've beaten [ Harry Carpenter] - and Larry Holmes even said that himself; that if I'd had another year to get ready I'd have beaten him. Me and he are good friends today though, and that fight was a great moment for me. I lost, but then I had to move on and get on with my life.

  Gerry Cooney

  Moving, Good Friend, Fighting

  Source: www.boxing247.com

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• I would bring Patti [Smith ] in to the editing room [working on the Dream of Life] and say, "This is a great moment for a voiceover, or a poem," and then we'd bring in some sound design.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Editing, Design

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can have a good moment with a parent you are estranged from, and you have a great moment, and then the next time you see them, everything's back to the way it was before and you guys are throwing knives at each other.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Knives, Guy, Parent

  "Gilmore Girls' Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino Discuss Those Final 4 Words and Whether Stars Hollow Would Vote for Trump". Interview with Jen Chaney, www.vulture.com. December 1, 2016.

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• The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Artist, Men, Bombs

  "The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. I : The Two Poets of Saffron Park, 1908.

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• I think more about clicking the teeth, because I have to line them up just exactly right, and then I slam them down so they exactly meet. And I think I worry about that too much. I'm not thinking about remembering. Like, "Wow, that was a great moment went my son went trick-or-treating": click. "What was I supposed to remember?" That sort of thing.

  Rich Fulcher

  Son, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do.

  Robert Plant

  Kids, Ideas, Would Be

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do. I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places. I see it all and yet I see so little because it's so fast.

  Robert Plant

  Kids, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good and the Yankees are good and you are playing a big series in September in Yankee Stadium, four game series, there is no greater excitement anywhere than the Yankee Stadium.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Yankees, Games, Yankee Stadium

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 16, 2007.

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• I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.

  Susan Orlean

  Halloween, Moments, Born

  "Haunted" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2010.

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• Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

  Gary Larson

  Time, Money, Moments

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.

  Richard L. Evans

  Life, Father, Son

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• It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Men, Thinking

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• When I was young, I was a hunter, walking wooded hillsides with confident steps and a gun in my hand. I knew the blur of wings, the rocketing form, and the Great Moment that only hunters know, when all existence draws down to two points and a single line. And the universe holds it breath. And what may be and what will be meet and become one - before the echo returns to its source.

  Pete Dunne

  Gun, Hunting, Echoes

  Pete Dunne (1995). “Before the Echo: Essays on Nature”

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