Peter Ackroyd Quotes

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

Peter Ackroyd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 5, 1949

Topics

PastPeopleBelieveYouHousePlace

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

Jet Li

LifeTeacherMy LifeWantCoachMum

I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.

Joel Osteen

GodThinkQuestionsUnderstandNever

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

John Ortberg

EvilRealOutConvinceVictims

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

Jeff Vandermeer

HistoryConsequencesUsDreamingToo

Christ's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is broken, and the fish wend out of the world.

John Wycliffe

GodMenBrokenLawWorldTrees

In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.

Romesh Gunesekera

BeautyTruthBalanceWritingFind

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

Mitt Romney

LoveParentingMomGiftGreatest

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

Donna Lynne Champlin

RespectCreativePeopleSucceedOwn

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what's happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Brene Brown

WorkBetterUnderstandingFeelings

It's essential for an actor to have a hobby for the time when the telephone doesn't ring.

Bradford Dillman

TimeHobbyRingActorTelephone

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

Paul Stanley

HealthCreativitySoulDeathStart

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.

Timothy Murphy

GreatJobBorderImmigrantsRays

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