Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Robert Baden-Powell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 22, 1857 - January 8, 1941

Topics

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Superheroes are modern mythological characters, so you're going to make them look impossible. Even my Krypto The Superdog is the idealisation of the canine form.

Jim Lee

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The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

Joe Gebbia

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I'm in heels more than flats, but when I wear very short dresses, I like small heels.

Jeanne Damas

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Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

John Turner

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My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.

Stephen Dobyns

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Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro.

Luis Guzman

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I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Liya Kebede

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I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

FatherDeathBedNeverHeUntil

I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.

Demi Lovato

MusicSadMyselfHappyThinkMad

I make money, money doesn't make me.

Chris Webber

MoneyMeMake

For a long time, I've ranted against naming your startup community 'Silicon Whatever.' Instead, I believe every startup community already has a name. The Boulder startup community is called Boulder. The L.A. startup community is called L.A. The Washington D.C. startup community is called Washington D.C.

Brad Feld

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Unlike a lot of comics, I didn't care about getting on 'Saturday Night Live.' That show had such history and was so established that I didn't see the point.

Artie Lange

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