These Days Quotes - Page 16

• Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Beauty, Beautiful, Religion

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.

  Judith Crist

  Funny, New Year, Years

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• Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Pride, Honor

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.166, Paradise Publishing

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• Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

  Peter Dunne

  Sports, Motor Racing, Mph

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• One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Book, Writing, Golf

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• The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

  Julie Andrews

  Angel, Thinking, Littles

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• I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

  Bobby Vinton

  Travel, Fun, Army

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• These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Eye, Fighting

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• Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.

  Anne Hathaway

  Creativity, Wonderful

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• I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.

  Margaret Mahy

  Years, Office, Bed

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• It's so hard for cool people these days. They just don't want us to be hip.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, People, Want

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• We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some interest in this kind of thing.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Funny, Work, Writing

  "The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics". Richard P. Feynman's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1965.

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• These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  War, Bombarded By, Violence

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.232, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and how far a community identifies with something that symbolizes its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving. This is the positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces new responses to new challenges. But because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Dream, Media, Hands

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• I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Daughter, Mother, Song

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.58, Beacon Press

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• Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

  P. T. Barnum

  Daughter, Mother, Fall

  P.t. Barnum (2015). “Golden Rules for Making Money”

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• The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

  Douglas Bader

  Holiday, Sea, Dover

  Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.19, Pen and Sword

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• I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Drinking, Beer, Addiction

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

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• We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be accomplished through a separate course in morality or ethics. I am convinced, however, that values are sustained on campus by the honesty of our words, and by the confidence we have in the words of others.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Honesty, Teaching

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• The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days.

  Frank Miller

  People, Superhero, Guy

  "Returning to the Dark Knight". Interview with Charles Brownstein, www.cbr.com. April 21, 2000.

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• Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child. Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have so many options these days.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Children, Being Single, Men

  "Jennifer Aniston: Women Don't Need Men to Be Good Moms". Press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel, people.com. August 8, 2010.

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• These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Dream, Home, Reality

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• Curiosity doesn't matter anymore. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.

  Hector Babenco

  Emotional, People, Curiosity

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• It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.

  Stewart Baker

  Technology, People, Intellectual

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