John Tyler Quotes

Were you a merchant, would you settle yourself in a rich or poor neighborhood? You would not be so blind as to locate yourself among persons who would not be able to purchase your goods. So with nations with whom we trade.

John Tyler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 29, 1790 - January 18, 1862

Topics

YourselfRichBlindYouSettlePoor

I'm a competitor; I'm in here talking - come at me. If you score on me, I'm gonna tap you on your butt. You got the best of me - but you got to do it every time.

Jimmy Butler

TimeBestMeTalkingYouButt

American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges.

Jo Bonner

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I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.

Andrew Taylor Still

DesireNeverCatWalksLightly

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

Robert Hall

HistoryUnityAttentionIndividual

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Stephen Hawking

ScienceUniverseAbstractUsSolve

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

Steven Wright

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If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity.

Martin O'Malley

WorkWomenMenBelieveDignity

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Mary Ann Mobley

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My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

Milla Jovovich

AgePowerTimeDayMeProblems

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

Anne Tyler

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I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

William Wycherley

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