Henry Van Dyke Quotes

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Henry Van Dyke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 10, 1852 - April 10, 1933

Topics

GoodHappinessServiceSailWorld

When we separate music from life we get art.

John Cage

LifeMusicArtGetSeparate

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

John le Carre

ManBookLibrarySecond-HandReally

I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.

Anna Netrebko

WorkKnowSometimesNervousMissing

Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and the publisher of the song - not the singer - and make two separate deals.

John Waters

MusicSongYouFindComplicatedOut

I don't see myself coaching gymnastics. I see myself involved in the sport in the future but involved in other things as well.

Aly Raisman

FutureMyselfCoachingSeeI See

The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.

Michael Schiavo

TimeWifePictureNewsPrivacyWant

I love the idea that it doesn't take one person only to achieve your potential. It takes a village, it takes a community, a street, a teacher, a mother.

Mira Nair

LoveMotherCommunityTeacherPerson

In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on.

Judy Blume

BookUpGiveReportsBooksMade

The most propagandistic element of 'Frozen' was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

Jordan Peterson

GoodCharacterBeginningVillainWay

Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull!

Dennis Brown

YouKnowBullRumorsHospitalGoing

No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

Colin Hanks

LifeSchoolPeopleHigh SchoolYou

I started dating at 16.

Ashley Graham

DatingStarted

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