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Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Youth Vanity Young Nation Fault

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

John Maynard Keynes

Past Man Present Know Nothing More

I looked Death right in the face.

Death Face Right Looked

Sen. Robert Menendez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration. Congressman Luis Gutierrez's CIR ASAP Act with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.

Law Immigration Illegal Immigration

I always make a joke: 'Don't look into the future; it's too bright.' That's as positive as I can be.

Positive Future Look I Can Bright

I don't know if any famous people follow me, but their daughters definitely do.

Lucky Blue Smith

People Me Famous Know Follow Any

I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice.

Perspective Healing Believe Voice

I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?

Donald Pleasence

Hero Now Right Parts Am Physically

A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.

Time Train Hollywood Same Big Loud

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

Experience Chaos World Think Trying

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Language Speech Persuasion Three

This making studies and then taking them home to use them is only half right. You get composition, but you lose freshness; you miss the subtle and, to the artist, the finer characteristics of the scene itself.

Home You Artist Lose Right Miss

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

William Jennings Bryan

Man Spark Body Find Will Spirit

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