Dorothea Dix Quotes

Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.

Dorothea Dix

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 4, 1802 - July 17, 1887

Topics

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I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MarriageYourselfParentsInteresting

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

Jerry Seinfeld

DeathStartRoadDoingYouOnly

Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music.

Ruben Blades

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A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.

Roxane Gay

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The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.

Chris Zylka

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I think sometimes when you begin to examine things - like yourself - suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further.

Bonnie Wright

YourselfThinkYouSometimesWant

I was 14 or 15 when I moved to L.A. permanently, but I had been out for pilot season for a few years before that.

Britt Robertson

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Winston Churchill

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I got two stores, two streetwear stores, at home. Have to tend to those. Play Cloths. Have to tend to that business.

Pusha T

HomeBusinessPlayTwoGotStores

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

Swoosie Kurtz

Los AngelesUnderstandNeverFirst

I consider myself an actor who is funny.

Sean Hayes

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