Douglas Southall Freeman Quotes

Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 16, 1886 - June 13, 1953

Topics

LifeCharacterTruthManWorthHigh

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

John Cusack

I AmSexOpenOffersAmScandals

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Robert M. Pirsig

LifeFutureLiveMountainGoalTop

Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.

John Perry Barlow

LifeServiceControlDataYouApple

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

Tom Brokaw

FishingReligionFlyChurchHigh

For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.

Tom Cavanagh

GoodGreatMeChanceThinkYou

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

Mike Nichols

HellKindSpecialDirectorMusical

I can do a backflip on the spot. I learned how from watching 'Ninja Turtles' movies as a kid. Whenever the Turtles got in trouble with their teacher, Master Splinter, he'd make them practice backflips as punishment - and I was so focused on becoming one of the Turtles that I taught myself how to do one, too.

Jason Mitchell

TeacherMyselfPracticeI CanMovies

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

David Wilkerson

GodGreatPastTake For GrantedTake

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

Dawn French

DaughterSisterPlayWantSomething

Atlanta's a great city to cultivate your own thing - from fashion to music to food.

Brian Tyree Henry

MusicGreatFoodCityFashionOwn

If I can relate to the joke, it's going to be funny.

Sebastian Maniscalco

FunnyI CanJokeGoingRelate

Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.

Tina Brown

TimeFlyingFakeCareerNowSound

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