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Lucy Larcom Quotes

Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: March 5, 1824 - April 17, 1893

Topics

Work Nature Beauty Wait Humanity

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

Go First Always Pretty Role Much

I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

School Parents Me Roots High School

A lot of times in America, we work on bully muscles. We want the big muscles and the stuff that looks good. But we don't focus on the little things. But that's the stuff that sustains you and keeps you strong.

Work Good Focus Little Things Strong

Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong.

Life Stupid My Life You Wrong Three

I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.

Character Myself Think Weird Flaws

The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.

Romesh Gunesekera

Education Mistake Political Movement

I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent.

Best Detail Game Know Opponent Read

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

Good Art Culture You Down Museums

I saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil, all over the world, they don't know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, 'Oh, there's too much oil.' They - they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they're our friends? They're not our friends.

World Think Friends You Yesterday

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Good Children Great Always Mothers

The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know?

Music People Song Drive You Know

Margaret Thatcher was pro-choice. She voted to decriminalize homosexuality. Was not profoundly religious. She was very liberal on social issues.

She Social Liberal Social Issues

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