Mills Quotes

• My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

  Rick Springfield

  Crush, Kids, Kissing

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• Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

  Shelley Morrison

  Children, Animal, Pet

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• In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

  Mother Jones

  Song, Children, Night

  Jones (Mother), Philip Sheldon Foner (1983). “Mother Jones speaks: collected writings and speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

  Norma McCorvey

  Differences, Abortion, Praying

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• Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?

  Carter Glass

  Country, People, Political

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• Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Math, Stuff, Degrees

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• The mills of God grind slowly.

  Lord Acton

  Grind, Retribution, Exactness

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• The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Parent, Special, Traps

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

  Thomas Huxley

  Work, Data, May

  "Geological Reform". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 25, 1869.

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• All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small; 3) The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; 4) When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

  Charles A. Beard

  Peace, Stars, Flower

  "Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.

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• Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

  Todd Gitlin

  Biographies, Sociologists, Intersections

  Todd Gitlin (2013). “The Intellectuals and the Flag: Reclaiming the American Liberal Tradition”, p.28, Columbia University Press

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• The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

  Mary Stewart

  Law, Lightning

  Mary Stewart (1981). “Touch not the cat”, Fawcett Books

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• Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done.

  Russell Means

  Hero, Athlete, People

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• I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?

  Amy Grant

  Fire, Flames, Frustrated

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• The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Water, Grind

  Orison Swett Marden (1924). “The Conquest of Worry”

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• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Past, Water, Grind

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• What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Political, Movement, Women's Suffrage

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• I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

  Fanny Kemble

  Islands, Sugar, Walks

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.125, University of Georgia Press

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• If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

  Millicent Fawcett

  School, Political, Degrees

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• All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

  Helen Suzman

  War, Psychosis, Government

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• And a proverb haunts my mind
  As a spell is cast,
  The mill cannot grind
  With the water that is past.

  Sarah Doudney

  Past, Water, Mind

  Sarah Doudney (1871). “Psalms of life”, p.82

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• Oh, to be home again, home again, home again!
  Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

  James Thomas Fields

  Home, Apples

  "In a strange Land". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Mother, Athlete

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

  Simon Newcomb

  Education, Cutting, Science

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

  John Polkinghorne

  Inquiry, Problem, Speak

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