John Quincy Adams Quotes

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.

John Quincy Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1767 - February 23, 1848

Topics

TimeHabitBibleReadingYouFail

I want to be a good human being.

Jeremy Renner

GoodWantHumanHuman BeingBeing

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

Jenny Zhang

MemoryCityMeaningBackBornPlace

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

Andrew Shue

AgePainAngerStartRoadYou

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.

Meg Cabot

MathVeterinarianGotWantedReally

I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots.

Anna Getty

LiveSimpleGardeningPeopleSmall

I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Martin and Stephen King - Brexit would mean a combination of 'A Feast for Crows' and 'Misery.'

Michael Gove

KingThinkSometimesMeanFeast

Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.

Meshell Ndegeocello

MusicThinkBodyPlayRockFilter

I think cutting our defense capacity not only demonstrably diminishes our national security, but it has a tremendous negative impact in the long run on our economy because we end up having to fight wars and clean up after terrorist disasters.

Trent Franks

FightNegativeThinkEndImpactRun

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

Tom Brokaw

FamilyCulturePlayUpLikeMacho

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

Robert Frost

ManHouseFillAged

The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.

Ruth Reichl

TimeYouFirst TimeFollowFirst

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

Miranda Cosgrove

WorkTimeCoolStartWishDoing

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