Martin Van Buren Quotes

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.

Martin Van Buren

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 5, 1782 - July 24, 1862

Topics

BusinessLongCountryWillSafe

Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.

Jessalyn Gilsig

ChildrenMomentPeaceTomorrowMe

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

John O. Brennan

FearFeetDeserveTallSeekNor

I grew up mainly in the Far East, where my father worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which was then a small, well-run colonial institution and not the global colossus it is today.

John Lanchester

FatherTodaySmallBankHong Kong

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.' And then there are the letters from adults who say, 'This is such a good book; why did you write it for teens?'

Matthew Tobin Anderson

GoodMeWritingBookThank YouYou

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales', they don't necessary think of chairs.

Jean Kerr

TodayThinkNecessaryHearWord

I think if we can get people focused to do what we need to do to keep our kids from being stuck with this debt that they didn't accrue, you might be surprised at how far we can move this conversation.

Michael Bennet

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I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

Robert De Niro

WorkRespectBestDo Your BestMe

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

Johnny Marr

MusicThoughtInterestingWhereUsed

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

Donald Miller

ChurchNeverPastorBeenStaff

In the startup work environment, you get to have a relationship with your boss, the investors, and the key members of the team. Startups are like families - you see the good, the bad and the ugly, but in the end, you've got each other's back.

Clay Clark

WorkGoodRelationshipBossUgly

I thought I was very pretty without hair. Naked, more honest somehow. No glamor, just bald old me. I seldom wore wigs or hats. But some people must have thought I was an exhibitionist or a religious fanatic.

Persis Khambatta

PeopleMeHairThoughtHatsBald

Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.

Tim O'Brien

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