Jennifer Johnston Quotes

I had an emerald ring that my mother gave me four or five years before she died. She wore it always, I wore it always, and I have given it to my daughter, and she wears it always. This ring belonged originally to my great, great grandfather. It's well over 150 years old.

Jennifer Johnston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: January 12, 1930

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There are so many talented actresses in Korea right now, but they're not seen because there aren't roles in which they can show their talents.

Song Hye-kyo

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Being a kid during the '80s, I feel I didn't really get the full experience.

Travie McCoy

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The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

Roland Joffe

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If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

Mo Udall

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I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.

Louis Freeh

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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

Livy

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When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Julia Bacha

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It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Joyce Maynard

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I live for inspiring people to do things they think they can't. My goal is to completely eliminate the word 'can't' from the equation.

Diamond Dallas Page

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I have three adult children, and I have four grandchildren. I want to stop the deficits. I want to make sure that we're not passing on to my children and my grandchildren deficits and that we cannot repay and that they will have to repay and maybe they won't be able to repay them.

Doug Hoffman

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Normally in spy movies, the person that the hero deals with is at the centre of power, surrounded by video screens, and they're old and grizzled. I'm no stranger to that dynamic.

Doug Liman

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I have a very varied taste in music from Boards of Canada to Radiohead. So I just love making music and being in the studio.

Deadmau5

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