Twelve Quotes - Page 5

• It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

  W. C. Fields

  Men, Justice, World

  W. C. Fields (1968). “Drat! Being the encapsulated view of life”

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• I will say broadly that I have more confidence in the spiritual life of the children that I have received into this church than I have in the, spiritual condition of the adults thus received. I will even go further than that, and say that I have usually found a clearer knowledge of the gospel and a warmer love of Christ in the child-converts than in the man-converts. I will even astonish you still more by saying that I have sometimes met with a deeper spiritual experience in children of ten and twelve than I have in certain persons of fifty and sixty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Children, Men

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• It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good bond or relationship, no matter how dramatic adolescence becomes, you children will probably turn out all right and want some form of connection to you in adulthood.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Children, Age, Comfort

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• I was excited about getting my first tattoo, but I was only twelve, so I had to hide it from my mother.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Tattoo, Mother, Firsts

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• Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

  Homaro Cantu

  Cells, Perfect, Algae

  "A Willy Wonka Who Wants to Feed the World". Interview with Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. December 30, 2008.

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• No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that they lose all proper perspective on silliness, like a baker who is nauseated by the sight of his own eclairs. This provides another good argument for the emerging theory that the best use of cryogenics is to freeze all human beings when they are between the ages of twelve and nineteen.

  Anna Quindlen

  Silly, Thinking, Sight

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• At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Garden, Games, Childhood

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• Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

  Plato

  Balls, Looks, Earth

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• There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.

  William Easterly

  Children, Book, Medicine

  William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.11, Penguin

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• People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.

  Heather O'Neill

  Halloween, Kids, Hard Times

  Heather O'Neill (2016). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.13, HarperCollins

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• Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Princess, Kids, Years

  "An Interview with Kathryn Lasky about Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

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• When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

  Frances Mayes

  Reading, Names, Breathe

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• Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

  Hugh Howey

  Book, Bored, Stories

  "Hugh Howey Interview Part 1: Science Fiction, Indie Writing, And Success". Interview with Eric Wecks, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Years, Ideas

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• Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

  Kimberly Willis Holt

  Reading, Paper, Becoming

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• If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.

  Francine Prose

  Writing, Thinking, Hours

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• In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.

  Natalie

  Perfection, One Day At A Time, Progress

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• There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.

  Boman Irani

  Years, Play, Theatre

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• No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can change the situation in twelve months.

  Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

  Years, Competition, Three

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• Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide. Modest, funny, curious, and wide open to the world, he gives us perceptive glimpses of Chinese culture, ancient to contemporary, and into what it means to be a poet, both now and twelve centuries ago. The account of his quest to find Han Shan's cave is a delight from beginning to end.

  Chase Twichell

  Spiritual, Mean, Journey

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• That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.

  Alan Keyes

  Eight, Scary, Welfare

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• New Yorkers have this special spot in Central Park, where they do this 5K run, the minute the clock strikes twelve. I ran once, and I'll never do that again, either. But, it's awesome to watch those people run. It's such a great environment and place to be.

  Hilary Swank

  Running, Central Park, People

  Source: collider.com

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• If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Feet, Twenties

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• Twelve o'clock! It is the natural centre, key-stone, and very heart of the day. At that hour, the sun has arrived at the top of his hill; and as he seems to hang poised there a while, before coming down on the other side, it is but reasonable to suppose that he is then stopping to dine; setting an eminent example to all mankind.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Keys, Stopping

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1428, Delphi Classics

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• Frank Marshall is very level headed and wonderful to work with. He he has a resume that is probably twelve miles long. As a human being he is so unassuming and is also consistent and so nice to everyone, he treats everyone on the set with great respect, it doesn't matter who they are and that says a lot about him.

  Paul Walker

  Nice, Long, Levels

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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