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George MacDonald Quotes

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

George MacDonald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: December 10, 1824 - September 18, 1905

Topics

Man Better Thief Better Man Gate

Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!

Food Eating Diet Healthy Group Old

I am grateful to have my life back and for the friends and family who never gave up on me, for a God who was there when I was ready to find him. I am grateful for so much, that every day, one day at a time, is Thanksgiving.

Life Family God Time Day Grateful

My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend.

Education Friend Father I Am Youth

When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes. I always have been, since I was a kid. When I was young, I could never get the shoes I really wanted.

Shoes Myself Money Clothes Young

When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.

Live Me Road Wonder Now Become

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

Worry Hobby Sometimes Anything Seem

You have to make decisions - you know what you think. That doesn't mean the audience are aware of your decisions or what you think - the lines you're saying may have ambiguity.

Tom Goodman-Hill

Saying Think Decisions You Know May

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

Life Woman My Life Define Southern

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

Ego Direction Go Desire Let Go His

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

Diane von Furstenberg

Life Mother God Me Born Nothing

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

Beauty Secret Without Zest

I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it's been held by a long line of monsters. We don't have to support our administrations to love our country.

Love Support Long Rise Country Say

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