George Washington Carver Quotes

I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

George Washington Carver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 10, 1864 - January 5, 1943

Topics

MoneyMeLivingNeverEarnGive Me

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

Jessi Klein

MePictureGoWantAustraliaSame

If I had met Judd Nelson in my late twenties, I would have been pretty enamored!

Jeremy Sisto

LatePrettyBeenWouldTwentiesMet

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Meister Eckhart

InspirationalHeartSoulYourselfGo

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

John Keegan

PeopleTryingYouWellWhole

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Matthew Simpson

ChangeFaithKnowledgeUnderstandUs

I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative, then I try to fit them in.

Jeff Kinney

TryWriteJokesUpNarrativeCome

In 'Hardflip,' you have a relationship where the father and son haven't seen each other in 18 years, but they find they're very alike: pigheaded, stubborn, passionate. It's a wonderful story of how you can't get away from how similar you and your children are.

John Schneider

FatherSonRelationshipChildrenYou

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

Tom Stoppard

WorkMyselfMeThinkLookWay

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

Rory Bremner

PoliticsMovingProblemTargetNew

Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

Martin Rees

SpaceCircleEarthLostGlamour

I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I'm able to compete in?

Mindy Kaling

MyselfBestFeelComedyWhiteI Can

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

AmbitionPrideRatherThanGiven

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