Townsend Harris Quotes

It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.

Townsend Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 3, 1804 - February 25, 1878

Topics

YouCircumstancesWillFirstOpen

In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves.

John Gregory Dunne

SportsWorldEarthSan Francisco

It's funny when you follow your own sort of bliss, then other people tend to respond in kind, meaning audiences. It's really weird how that works, but it does seem to apply to 'Nancy & Beth' especially.

Megan Mullally

FunnyPeopleWeirdMeaningYouKind

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.

Melanie Fiona

MusicDayPeopleEnd Of The DayEnd

I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut. I started taking those steps, and then I realized it would be the chance of a lifetime. It would be a dream life: not just a job, but the whole life.

Michael J. Massimino

LifeJobCollegeChanceDreamRight

I was so terrified that the business would not do well and that there would be no way that I would be in a position to pay my dad back this $80,000. At Stars, as a line cook, I think that I was making $10 or $12 an hour. So $80,000 - to have to pay that back was incomprehensible.

Steve Ells

StarsBusinessThinkBackWayLine

It sounds kind of cliche, and a lot of people say it about our music, but I think a good place to hear our music for the first time is on vacation, or somewhere warm, on the beach or something like that.

St. Lucia

GoodMusicTimeBeachVacationWarm

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

Trevor McDonald

FeelYouLivingYearsPretendAfter

Trump is not a conservative and has no conservative agenda. If elected president, he would not govern as the second coming of Ronald Reagan.

Tom Tancredo

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People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.

Ruth Rendell

LoveGoodPeopleBetterHelpGet

With humour, there is life.

JR

LifeHumour

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

Joseph Stiglitz

DiscriminationWhoEvenKnewMany

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

Jonathan Sacks

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