Henry David Thoreau Quotes

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

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There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.

Jim Henson

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I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.

John McCain

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There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'

John Henrik Clarke

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I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

Robert Morris

GoodRememberSoundOldRemembered

I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about.

Jeffrey Hunter

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Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts.

Michael Enzi

CareCongressExtraordinaryVictims

Chairman Hensarling is a good man who cares about America, and I respect him to the highest degree.

Stephen Fincher

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I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times.

Ron Perlman

BusyBetterThroughWhereBeenLean

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Mason Cooley

SayMoreMeanThey SayThanWriters

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it's fluffy comedy or a drama.

Chris Pine

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It would be a lot cheaper for me not to have to raise tens of millions of dollars to elect progressive candidates who will raise my taxes.

Chris Sacca

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