Hilaire Belloc Quotes

The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.

Hilaire Belloc

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 27, 1870 - July 16, 1953

Topics

SmileHumbleCloudsPeopleReady

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

John Candy

UpShowGetTonightDidOnce

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

Ann Curry

PowerPeopleMeSocietyVoiceThink

Fighter, father, husband - it's all the same person. I know the UFC stereotype is that we're all thugs. But I'd like people to know that I don't have to switch one off to try to be another. Being a father and a fighter, it's who I am.

Robert Whittaker

FatherI AmPeopleHusbandPerson

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

Mike Love

LifeGreatGetting OlderPeopleYou

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.

Michael Shnayerson

ChildrenWorldYouPlaceHandTaxes

When I hear other artists that are new and fresh and exciting, then I get excited.

Jay DeMarcus

NewFreshExcitedArtistsGetHear

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

Douglas Sirk

ChurchHandsHouseDirtyLos Angeles

I can remember me and my cousin always fighting. He was a big Bulls and Michael Jordan guy.

Chauncey Billups

MeFightingRememberI CanAlways

I know I am old-fashioned, but I don't want to bring out a fashion line, I don't want to bring out an album. I just want to do the work as best as I can, and if that effects change for somebody, then that is great. I don't want to change the world.

Cillian Murphy

WorkChangeGreatBestI AmFashion

Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.

Claire Denis

LifeGoodSometimesAlwaysNecessary

I'm not some crazy party animal. That's OK. If you say you want to be the best, you have to do what the best do - train, research, eat right, take care of yourself, and be. Don't pretend.

Shameik Moore

BestYourselfAnimalResearchCrazy

I digested this value system that told me there was no one for me unless I reached a certain type of perfection. And as you get older, you realize that ideal is constantly changing.

Marti Noxon

PerfectionValueMeYouRealizeGet

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