Elizabeth Janeway Quotes

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Elizabeth Janeway

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1913 - January 15, 2005

Topics

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If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

Joe Jamail

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There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.

Joanna Lumley

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If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

Jesse Owens

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Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

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When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

Andy Dick

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My father's passing comes with sorrow and grief for me, for my mother, for my brothers, and for my sisters. He was a great fire who burned bright, and we lived in his light and warmth for so very long.

Meghan McCain

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Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.

Maurice Greene

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I'm awful at karaoke, but if I did have to sing, I'd go for my favourite Frank Sinatra song 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' The fact I love Frank is my grandfather's doing: he drummed it into me from a very early age that Frank Sinatra is God.

Matt Smith

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If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

Matt Kemp

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For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I've got so many: Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Reed. If they got 'Hunky Dory' and 'Citadel' offered to them, they would do completely different jobs on both of them.

Aneurin Barnard

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When you are truly you and share who you are with the world and be confident in who you are, it doesn't matter what size you are. It doesn't matter what your different body parts look like.

Amy Purdy

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I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

Stephen Mangan

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