Rita Dove Quotes

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

Rita Dove

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 28, 1952

Topics

LearningFatherMotherParentsYou

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

John McGahern

RainIdentityLanguageSpeechSkies

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

Stephen Covey

WorldOverLittlePopulationAlmost

In 'The Grandmaster,' I had a supporting role, but my character in 'The Crossing' is much more central to the plot.

Song Hye-kyo

CharacterMoreRolePlotMuchHad

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

Sloane Crosley

LivingLeapTurnThingsMothers

The media tries to do what they do. You can't stop. You gotta get money.

Trick Daddy

MoneyMediaYouStopGetGotta

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

Tony Curtis

ArtPaintingWhereShowWouldStill

I have no idea who coined the term 'the New Journalism,' or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with 'new' in it is just begging for trouble, of course.

Tom Wolfe

NamePhilosophyJournalismPartyNew

I'd spent life so terrified of failure that when it happened, it was very liberating.

Molly Bloom

LifeFailureHappenedVeryTerrified

I talk about a lot of issues I go through and some of my fans go through and try to create a fellowship where people can relate to each other.

Juice Wrld

PeopleCreateGoTryTalkFans

If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.

Douglas Rushkoff

OrganizationBelieveGrowYouBad

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.

Chris Paul

I AmNew YorkCityMeCareYou

The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.

Atul Gawande

HealthGreatServicePeopleCare

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