Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Quotes

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 31, 1844 - January 28, 1911

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It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

Jennifer Gilmore

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I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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I was a science nerd. I have two science degrees. I enjoyed the sciences, nutrition, so I always modeled part time, thinking it would end.

Maye Musk

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I don't like it when people shout on stage without any particular reason. It carries no weight.

John Hurt

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The caricature of me in 1986 was not correct. I do not harbor the kind of animosity and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of. I did not.

Jeff Sessions

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I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

Michael Caine

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I used to love 'Ladies Night' by Lil' Kim so much that I performed it in school without really knowing what it was about. I just knew that she was getting at a guy and winning.

Stefflon Don

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Sometimes people say, 'You're the best at digressions.' And that's actually a real compliment to me.

Mike Birbiglia

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Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.

Molly Ivins

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As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

Molly Parker

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The most important thing for me is health - you wake up in the morning, you can breathe, and you can walk.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

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During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism.

Louis D. Brandeis

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