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Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Childhood Down Bear Hard Years

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

Jesse Jackson

Slavery Lost Vote Would States Had

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

Maya Lin

Politics War Veterans Vietnam War

If everyone in your class has heroes, and they can relate to them in textbooks and literature, and then you don't see any of your heritage there, you feel less than. And I always wanted to be able to make Latin kids like myself feel more than.

John Leguizamo

Myself Feel Literature You Heritage

By the end of last year we solved a lot of threads, and it's really good for this new way we're taking the show to really have these new people and these new energies, frankly.

Michael Shanks

Good People End Year New Way

While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

Jonathan Sacks

Future Politics Economics Thinking

There was a little less pressure to be fit on 'The Avengers' than 'Captain America.' I had just finished 'Captain America,' so I was already built. Plus, 'Captain America' has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. 'The Avengers' has not one shirtless scene.

Chris Evans

Transformation Pressure America Where

Sorrow ages you prematurely. When you're in emotional debt, you're pessimistic about the future and, even in your green years, long to return to the past to remedy the shortfalls of love and opportunity you suffered.

David Viscott

Love Future Opportunity Past Green

I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

Christopher Darden

Man I Am Book Care Trying Living

The idea that fiction can capture the stories that fall through the cracks of history informed 'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,' which progresses across the two Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Anthony Marra

History Fall Early Capture Fiction

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

Paula Deen

Funny Me Care Laugh Haters Say

Hindi films tend to over-romanticise situations.

Nushrat Bharucha

Hindi Situations Tend Films

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

Kristanna Loken

Job New York Acting New Out Up