Francis Parkman Quotes

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Francis Parkman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

John Morley

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Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Robert Kiyosaki

ExperiencePeopleLearnBadStreet

If a motive affects me, and I am compelled to act on it because it proves to be the 'strongest' of its kind, then the thought of freedom ceases to have any meaning. How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it?

Rudolf Steiner

FreedomI AmMeThoughtMeaningAct

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.

Mitch Daniels

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And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

Clarence Thomas

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It depends how lenient you are with your definition of artist. If you're going to include those who tap dance at the high school recital, then maybe I am.

Peter Falk

DanceSchoolI AmHigh SchoolYou

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

Rick Springfield

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By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

Nikola Tesla

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I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Marilyn Monroe

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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Montesquieu

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I feel limited in some ways because I have such young fans. But I'm okay with that; I do everything I want to do.

Kylie Jenner

FeelYoungWantOkayEverything

I got into the business because I love writing. When it came down to finding my voice, which every writer has to take time to do, I think I realized I write black people very well. I write us in a very honest way, and I want to hear the way we really talk.

Lena Waithe

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