Gerrit Smith Quotes

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

Gerrit Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 6, 1797 - December 28, 1874

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I'm spiritual.

Jessica Simpson

Spiritual

For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.

Jessica Lange

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I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.

Melanie Lynskey

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Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are.

John Sandford

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Everyone's so used to taking care of actors and directors, but people in the crew are there the longest and working the hardest.

Amy Landecker

PeopleCareEveryoneUsedWorking

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.

Sirio Maccioni

TimeGetting OldYoungOldElegant

And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.

Mike Pence

FriendYourselfGovernmentYouKnow

My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur Ransome books gave me an alternative childhood and the tools to escape.

Michelle Magorian

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About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.

Lois Tilton

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Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

Annie Lennox

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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Winston Churchill

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It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

Pierre Jean de Beranger

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