Mary Harris Jones Quotes

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

Mary Harris Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 1, 1837 - November 30, 1930

Topics

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The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

Andres Segovia

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Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

Robert Irwin

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The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

Jeff Foxworthy

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It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

Aml Ameen

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People are fed up with seeing the same thing over and over. They want a qualitative change.

Amitabh Bachchan

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When you're in a turnaround situation, you cannot incrementalize your way out of it.

Steve Easterbrook

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In the past, I never gave money to my children when they were young in return for nothing. When one of them approached me to give them cash, I asked them to do some work in exchange for it.

Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

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I love to drown myself in work. I pray to God to keep me busy and let me do good work.

Rithvik Dhanjani

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We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Rob Lowe

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When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

Johnny Mathis

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I try to stay away, but In-N-Out, you just can't compare it. It's the best. It's the best. It's healthy fast food; they do their own meat and their own salad.

Dirk Nowitzki

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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Desi Arnaz

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