Grace Abbott Quotes

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Grace Abbott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 17, 1878 - June 19, 1939

Topics

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In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.

John Cornforth

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I had done one failed pilot. I remember, when it failed, I was like, 'Oh my God, how does someone survive this? That's it - that's the end of my career; it's over.'

John Krasinski

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Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

John Updike

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Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

Stephen Carter

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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Stephen King

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I just feel like sometimes people don't want to hear the truth. It's hard when you hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes I have a hard time with that because I'm very honest.

Stephanie Sigman

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I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

Rodney King

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I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.

Roseanne Barr

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My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally.

Brian Cox

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I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

Brandon Boyd

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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

William Penn

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There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders.

Peter Hook

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