Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 11, 1836 - March 19, 1907

Topics

BirdManRoseFallFirstOriginal

If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

Jenny Eclair

BeachRulesGoWantBarShade

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

John Gutfreund

MoneyNew YorkPeopleWorldNew

I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone.

Melissa de la Cruz

WorkChildrenDayWordsNightWrite

I didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23. Then after that, I went out with a guy I'd been best friends with all through drama school.

Maxine Peake

BestSchoolFriendsDramaSerious

Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.

Simon Hoggart

ChildrenMeDetailHolidaysPerfect

The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government.

Trent Franks

GovernmentEffortPrinciplesHuman

I am lucky to be a film director. I can create, express. It proves that I am still alive and the Khmer Rouge did not succeed in destroying me.

Rithy Panh

I AmMeSucceedI CanCreateAlive

The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms - brainstorms, that is.

Miguel Nicolelis

ColleaguesMeasureWantKindSee

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

BetterYouSeeOffWorseThan

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Lord Byron

LifeDesireVeryCertainProlongs

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

Judith Rossner

MyselfSupportWritingOldYears

I'm missing an index finger.

Jason Pierre-Paul

MissingFinger

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