Alice Morse Earle Quotes

In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.

Alice Morse Earle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 27, 1851 - February 16, 1911

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We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.

Jello Biafra

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One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

Anna Akana

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We always need little reminders that it's gonna be all good.

Andy Grammer

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From the IRS standpoint, 15,000 new employees have to be added just to, you know, administer ObamaCare and look at the tax implications.

Jeff Fitzgerald

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A person who willingly goes into business for themselves - and intentionally seeks out 'solopreneurship' - is insane!

Michael Gerber

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'Greek' is basically a show about sororities and fraternities. It follows Casey Cartwright, played by me, her younger brother, and all the people that are involved in their lives from the different fraternities.

Spencer Grammer

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If something comes that it is so extreme that you have difficulty thinking of it as a good thing, don't think of it as a good thing and kid yourself. To the extent that you can, don't label it a bad thing. Refusing to label something a bad thing opens you up to possibilities you would not have even considered otherwise.

Srikumar Rao

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Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Tom Waits

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In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.

Martin Rees

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Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'

Michael Nutter

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I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

Michael P. Anderson

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It would be fun to be eighty-five and have a Broadway debut. That's the goal I'm shooting for. When they revive 'Driving Miss Daisy' for the seven-hundredth time.

Miriam Shor

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