Clint Smith Quotes

Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums are pulled from the shelves. Home videos of prepubescent siblings in matching pajamas dance across the television screen.

Clint Smith

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FamilyHomeDanceTelevisionHoliday

As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.

Jim Crace

StoryLovedGivingLandscapeSheep

I don't know about the world, but I know kids. And I feel like sometimes kids don't get involved because they think, what can I do? I'm just a kid. And really kids can do so much.

Jenna Bush

WorldThinkFeelKnowSometimesKid

Some people might say, 'Can we afford it?' I think that's asking the wrong question... We should instead be asking, 'Can we really afford not to try?'

Andrew Lo

PeopleThinkWrongSayTryAsking

I remember... seeing the first plane go into the towers and thinking: 'It's a beautiful day. Somebody really must have gotten off course to have the plane go into the towers.'

Robert Mueller

BeautifulDayThinkingRememberGo

That's what you want to do, is get recognized for accomplishments you've had on the field, not off the field. That's always my goal, to find ways to do that.

Matt Cain

YouFindGoalWantAlwaysGet

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

Sidney Blumenthal

HistoryBeginningBookEndVoting

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.

Robert B. Parker

StrongWhateverUniversityTeaching

Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now.

Mo Rocca

LoveMorningNowYesParkStill

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

Joshua Sasse

CharacterYouFindEmotionsTryUse

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.

Donovan Bailey

WorkDreamsPassionYour DreamsHard

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

Craig Ferguson

WomanWeddingGayPlaceUnionsTook

I think what's dangerous about marriage is the way it can make you feel like you've got it all wrapped up. Like you're done: you've found your spouse, you've married him or her, and you don't need to think too much more about it.

Ariel Levy

MarriageThinkFeelYouToo Much

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