Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 24, 1831 - September 29, 1910

Topics

LiveMovingCalmSlowGrowDriving

I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult.

Joe Nichols

Little ThingsThank YouChurchYou

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

John Galsworthy

HumanBeginningsEndings

My number one focus is and will always be football. I wanted to make sure that companies I partner with not only respect that, but also make sense and are quality products. I think Klipsch is synonymous with quality in the sound industry, so it was a natural partnership.

Andrew Luck

RespectFocusQualityFootballThink

There might be people who have never even tweeted before who are just working on their great American tweet. It will be so good that we'll all have to stop Twitter right away. I would like to write the great American tweet. I don't think the great American tweet has been written yet. We'd know.

Megan Amram

GoodGreatPeopleThinkAmerican

I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

Amy Ray

GoodThinkHurtWorthYouBad

I am a very private person. I still get shy at times.

Amy Weber

I AmPersonShyGetPrivate Person

Spin class is the best for your core!

Colton Haynes

BestClassCoreSpinYour

My training was with some old British communists who had organized unions in the '60s and '70s. And their philosophy was, if you can't drink a pint with a man, how are you gonna get him to go on strike and risk his life?

Boots Riley

LifeManTrainingPhilosophyYouGo

And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.

Brandi Chastain

MyselfMomentTrainingMeProudGo

Finding pleasure in revision is the thing I would most strongly advise to people. It's not something I did as a younger writer; I learned it over time.

Antonya Nelson

TimePeopleFindingOverPleasure

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

William Hurt

AmazingBelieveEnergyFinancial

I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.

William Petersen

LifeHopeMeThinkEndWay

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