William Morris Hunt Quotes

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!

William Morris Hunt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 31, 1824 - September 8, 1879

Topics

ChildrenWifeManStubbornBack

It strikes me as one of nature's greatest jokes that the types of food we all like to eat more than anything (especially in winter) are the very things that cause the most insane weight gain - mounds of fluffy mashed potato, hot, thickly buttered toast, huge, steaming bowls of pasta, great big... actually, I'll stop there.

John Niven

NatureWinterGreatFoodMeStop

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Ann Landers

GoodMindMeasurePersonTrueHim

My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!

Michael Douglas

FatherHeDidFilms

My first priority is time with my family.

Tom Selleck

FamilyTimeFirstPriority

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

Michelle Shocked

FaithSoulDevilYouFailSell

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

Chris Anderson

TechnologyRise AboveFallRiseWill

I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.

Cher

StarsPeopleDeepThinkBackKnow

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

Brock Yates

LifeCarMy LifeFastAdmitAround

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

LifeRespectEffortMeUnityEnergy

I'm not in a position where I can pick and choose. It's the other way around. The studios pick and choose.

Pilou Asbaek

ChooseI CanWayPositionWhere

And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents.

Philippe Perrin

LifeParentsStrongThinkMotivation

I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.

Phil Anselmo

MusicI CanDoneSayEverything

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