Charlotte Smith Quotes

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.

Charlotte Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 4, 1749 - October 28, 1806

Topics

EducationHistoryPeoplePresentNow

But I'm really into old music - bluesy, soulful singers, like Etta James, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin. I wouldn't have minded being born in the 1960s!

Jessica Sanchez

MusicBornOldBeingLikeSingers

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

Meg Cabot

MeWritingNeedBooksLikeOffer

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

John Kricfalusi

TodayWritingBetterMoviesAnything

Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.

Angela Merkel

WorldImportantProsperityEurope

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

Steven Wright

PetElephantLostApartmentGot

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

Tracy Chapman

WomenMenPeoplePresentCareerSex

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

FutureHappinessPresentEnjoyTrue

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

Doris Lessing

LifeI AmMy LifeNeverAlwaysAm

What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.

Chiang Kai-shek

SeaBeginningActionAmericanDuty

I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.

Brooke Hayward

MotherParentsSelfishFeelingsTrue

I didn't intend to become an actor.

Anthony Quinn

ActorBecomeIntend

When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.

Arthur Lewis

SlowGrowDownFastDeveloping

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