Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and 'play the game,' and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Robert Baden-Powell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Johannes Tauler

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The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

Meg Ryan

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Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever.

John McCain

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All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Sophie Hannah

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My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

Tony Dorsett

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I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I just came out that way.

Lisa O'Hare

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When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The music has its own kind of agency.

Arca

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I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

Anna Sui

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It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

Thomas Szasz

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I try to plan our meals for the week on Sunday.

Tiffani Thiessen

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Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.

Richard Corliss

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Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

Marilyn Manson

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