Thomas John Barnardo Quotes

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Thomas John Barnardo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: celebrity
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: July 4, 1845 - September 19, 1905

Topics

CharacterBetterPersonalMoreThan

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

Joe Paterno

ExcellenceLosingGameWorthTragedy

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

Jeremy Corbyn

ExpansionNATOOtherRussianLeads

My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.

Anderson Paak

FamilyFailureHappinessMusicStory

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

Ann Coulter

ChristianYouForgetConservative

Golf gives and takes. So yeah, sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. But that's golf.

Angel Cabrera

GolfYouSometimesMissJustTakes

In this achievement-based lifestyle, most of us have certain boxes we're checking to make us useful humans. But a lot of things you do as a parent are kinda invisible. There's a lot you achieve - just getting dinner on the table - that are more than making a song.

Stephen Malkmus

DinnerSongParentYouTableMore

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.

Sue Monk Kidd

GirlFairyTalesDrewFairy Tales

My family and I live in a wing of a Georgian mansion in East Sussex, which was built in the 1780s and fell into disrepair. It was rescued in the Seventies and carved into six terrace houses.

Simon Toyne

FamilyLiveSeventiesBuiltHouses

I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation.

Tom Riley

LoveWeatherBuildingMotivationBad

I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy to benefit from the products of the methodology that they otherwise deny.

Liz Williams

ScienceHistoryPastHappyEvidence

In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.

Dean Bakopoulos

HonestyCoffeeFoodServiceBeerMe

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

William Manchester

DarknessPeaceEndDeadUpQuilt

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