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Robert Ripley Quotes

My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 25, 1890 - May 27, 1949

Topics

Morning Friday Saturday Down Go

Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

Life Nature Time Flowers Birds You

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

Power Plant You New Build Years

The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.

Life Army Active Being Like Bees

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

Time New Things Poetry Me End New

My father was a veteran. He fought in World War II. He was a patriot. On the other hand, he had no illusions whatsoever about how Uncle Sam had mistreated him and other black soldiers.

John Edgar Wideman

Father War World Black Uncle Hand

Being a bride for Gaultier was a very special moment for me.

Moment Me Bride Special Being Very

Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.

Music Dance People Forward Think

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

I think sleep is probably the neglected stepsister in the health conversation today. I think we've done a good job regarding physical activity and diet, but sleep has remained out there in the cold, and that's surprising to me.

Good Today Health Job Sleep Me

I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.

Heart Day New Things Thinking Long

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Louis D. Brandeis

Man Government People Law Become

I win at golf. I'm a club champion many times at different clubs. I win at golf. I can sink the three-footer on the 18th hole when others can't.

Win Champion Golf I Can Others Club

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