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Donald Kagan Quotes

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

Donald Kagan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1932

Topics

Politics Degree Things Whole Greeks

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

Failure Day Every Day Judgment Every

Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun people I know.

Andrew Davies

Life Fun People America Know She

I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.

Mayer Hawthorne

People World Think Resilient Most

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

Melanie Laurent

Character Story Choose Director

Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

John Leo

Politics Involved Churches Should

The prevailing view was that girls were outside of school because of the resistance of families to their education. But when I visited a local village, what everyone told me - the chiefs, the parents, the children - was that girls weren't in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.

Ann Cotton

Work Education Future Children Me

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

Jeff Abbott

Live Great Creative Think Lucky Up

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Stanley Hauerwas

Death Trying Go Escape Way Never

I thought: 'It would be great to create a series of clothes that looked like that tree.' Clothes that gave you the green of the leaf and the warm brown of the underside of that leaf and the vanilla colored blossom.

Stanley Marcus

Great Tree Green Leaf Thought Warm

I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon-string guitar hanging on the wall in my house and a bunch of classical guitar books to grab. I kind of do that just for fun.

Rivers Cuomo

Good Music Fun Guitar House Wall

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

Rupert Graves

Humility Think You Level Being Does

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

Rupert Murdoch

Family Father Mother Son Curiosity