George McGovern Quotes

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

George McGovern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 19, 1922 - October 21, 2012

Topics

TruthMindSpeakSpiritOthersSeek

My week at school would be good or bad depending on whether Balmain won. I have such fond memories of those suburban grounds, and everything was so undiluted. The players weren't censored, and for me it was a wonderful period of my life when everything was simple and pure. For me, that resonated with rugby league.

Matthew Nable

LifeGoodMemoriesSimpleSchoolMe

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

Maureen Forrester

LifeMy LifeCanadaTurnHappened

When you grow up in the city, New York is so big that you can kind of stay in your own little corner of the city and think that that's it because you don't need anything. You don't have to venture out; you don't have to touch the boroughs. You can kind of stay in your neighborhood, and there's everything there.

Michael Che

New YorkCityThinkGrowYouNew

I first discovered Tampa in my 20s when I met my wife, who was living there, and I instantly fell in love with the city. It's somewhere between a big city and small town, so you get the feeling of both.

Michael Connelly

LoveWifeCitySmallYouSmall Town

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John W. Gardner

LearningFailurePeopleStopBecome

We often say that the M&M Group's destiny is inextricably linked with India's. Both were born around the same time: India in 1947, M&M in 1945. The group has experienced the same vicissitudes that the Indian economy has.

Anand Mahindra

TimeDestinyBornIndiaSayGroup

I hate wearin' sunglasses, to be honest with you. You don't need sunglasses in Ireland.

Tristan MacManus

HateSunglassesYouNeedHonest

You do sometimes watch performances and just think, 'I may as well give up. I won't reach that. I may as well give up.' But then there are other actors you watch and just think, 'Oh my God, yes, I want to try and do that. Try and be like that'. And Bryan Cranston is someone who I'd like to try and be like.

Tom Mison

GodThinkReachSomeoneYouWant

I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and terrifies. Throughout human history, it is an idea that seems sometimes to have caused whole populations to rise up and slaughter one another.

Robert Winston

HistoryThinkRiseSometimesHuman

Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.

Miguel

EmotionsHumanUsGoingShowOnly

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

Michael Tilson Thomas

WorkMusicTrustMeAmericanYear

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Julia Child

LoveCookingThinkSomeoneYouNice

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