George Montgomery Quotes

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

George Montgomery

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 29, 1916 - December 12, 2000

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Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

Jo Brand

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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

John Adams

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When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

Joel Sternfeld

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The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.

Melvyn Bragg

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Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.

Robert Pinsky

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I suppose the key for me is about opening up experiences and untold stories to audiences.

John Tiffany

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Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Tom Hodgkinson

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Everything is going so great. I can't complain.

Juicy J

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If chick-lit really is taking a commercial battering, I'd suggest it's because the marketing has been done to death. Covering everything in girlie pink and putting chocolate in the title may once have been a clever Pavlovian device but now makes readers feel a bit sick.

Jojo Moyes

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What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower.

Dorothea Dix

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Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

Dean Ornish

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The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

Chris Sacca

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