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John Sergeant Wise Quotes

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

John Sergeant Wise

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 27, 1846 - May 12, 1913

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Time People Country Soil First Time

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

Joe Flanigan

Learning You Want Out Pretty May

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

Melissa George

Journey Great Time Start Long You

Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring the perception is our ability to understand qualities. They exist only as long as a human being keeps them in play. They're - Therefore they are akin to energy.

Robert Irwin

Perception Energy Long Play Human

We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can improve their lives, that has a positive effect on their communities, on their families, on their countries.

Jeanne Shaheen

Positive Women Live People World

I want to tell stories that reflect how people are feeling.

Michael Connelly

People Feeling Want Reflect Tell

I'm terrible at basketball. I have really small hands, and I can't control the ball.

Amanda Knox

Control Basketball Small Hands Ball

I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.

Sissy Spacek

Family Remember Down Everything Just

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

Trent Reznor

Music Character Writing Someone Like

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

Mike Davidson

Sports People Care Hospital Get

If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's.

Mike Hawkins

Dreams Your Dreams Someone Choose

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Moliere

Live Food Eat Should

It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I was meat and potatoes.

Chrissy Teigen

Funny Food Mom Growing Up American