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Ethel Barrymore Quotes

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Ethel Barrymore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: August 15, 1879 - June 18, 1959

Topics

Life Best You Why Will Up

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

Jim Dale

Adventure You Find Inside Kid Still

We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.

Melissa Etheridge

Nature Talent Society Judge Want

You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools for our convenience tens of thousands of years later. Most bones or most tools rot or get buried and are never found again.

Steven Pinker

Tools Remember You Never Skull Left

The United Nations was founded 70 years ago, at the end of World War II. Since that time, Japan has steadfastly walked the path of peace and rebuilt a nation. And, since the mid-1950s onward, we have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia.

Shinzo Abe

Path Time Experience Peace War End

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

Tran Duc Luong

Justice Peace People World Stability

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Mary Martin

Habit Start Thinking Thoughtful Stop

It's easy to be silly in real life, but making stuff up onstage, that seemed hard. Better to be the funny person off-the-cuff in the room than to risk being unfunny onstage.

Janet Varney

Life Funny Better Silly Easy Person

My family was really big on college, and it was hard for them to stomach that I was going to be a hairdresser.

Jonathan Van Ness

Family College Hard Stomach Big

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.

Christopher Gorham

School High School Talking High Very

I am a nutritionist's nightmare.

Chrissy Teigen

I Am Nightmare Am Nutritionist

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Chris Matthews

War Find Reason Looked

Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on families. On the other hand, whenever I despair over our history, I am brought back to hope, the hope that things will get better, for my children.

Colson Whitehead

Home Hope Children History Wife Me