Nelson Rockefeller Quotes

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Nelson Rockefeller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: vice
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 8, 1908 - January 26, 1979

Topics

HistoryPurposePeopleYoungSee

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

Tommy Chong

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In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to get a salary of $100 dollars a week because I didn't feel I could tell Meredith's doctor father I was making less.

Tom Brokaw

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Cities have to realize that whatever the federal government is going to do, it's not going to be enough. And cities that proactively take control of their own quality of life initiatives are going to be the cities that ultimately attract the highly talented young people and create the jobs.

Mick Cornett

LifeQualityGovernmentPeopleYoung

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

Mohsin Hamid

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It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

Jasmine Guinness

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A role is never just a ready-made thing.

Debra Granik

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I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

Deirdre O'Kane

TeaKnowNeedRealNecessityJust

I learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this day. I should have continued longer if it hadn't been that I concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife, and so I cut out to hunt me one.

Davy Crockett

LifeDayWifeMeNameMy Life

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

Branford Marsalis

FunPeopleMeOkayLikeSince

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity.

Peter Dinklage

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It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

Todd Rundgren

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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Thomas Fuller

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