Mary Ritter Beard Quotes

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

Mary Ritter Beard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 5, 1876 - August 14, 1958

Topics

WorldRealityEnjoyWillCritics

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

Jim Leach

PromisesCountryHardMayCement

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

LifeAgeMomSisterStoryDrawing

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

John Glover

LoveMyselfMeFeelDemonsLook

I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.

Andre Rieu

LifeChildCakeSweetLovedFat

I wish there was a news channel that really told you what was going on in the world, not just sensationalized news.

Andie MacDowell

WorldWishYouNewsI WishGoing

I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'

Jeff Zucker

LoveSportsFootballNew YorkTeam

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

Tom Clancy

ArtRulesMoviesNeverDifferent

I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

Michael Vartan

LazyMoviesBecauseWouldEasier

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Jon Bon Jovi

ConstitutionRock StarPortraitRock

When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.

Don Kardong

MarathonStartingLineConviction

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

Dick Gephardt

EducationGoodMotherSchoolTruck

We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have.

Dean Kamen

ProblemsWishKnowAboutCertain

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