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Edwin Markham Quotes

'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that would seem abhorrent and incredible to a higher and more brotherly civilization.

Edwin Markham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940

Topics

Great Doubt White Civilization Race

Men mess up. Women create this big illusion in their head that the man they're going to be with is going to be perfect. Nobody's going to be perfect, and people are going to let you down. The only thing that you can hope for is someone that's going to be honest with you.

Jessica White

Women Hope Men Man People Someone

As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.

Jennifer Hyman

Inspirational Women Men Feel Taught

I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.

Tom Odell

Music Doubt Playing Only Hated Ever

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Myself Someone Done Never See I See

A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work.

Jonathan Galassi

Work Book More Write Sell Print

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

Dilma Rousseff

Poverty Mission Eradicate

It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

Dimitar Sasselov

Science Great Feel You Look Back

I grew up in a world of Officer Friendly. It was just the image I had.

DeRay Mckesson

World Image Up Friendly Just Had

I type everything on my computer. I carry a writer's notebook everywhere, in case I am struck by an idea. I forget things unless I write them down. I'm planning to learn how to dictate into my cellphone; I think that will be very helpful, too.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I Am Planning Think Learn Down Will

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

Colin Firth

Tree Me Swimming Think I Can Living

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

Bob Hope

Pet Trees Fast Why Dogs Miles

It's been a struggle to get people to come eat for fun. You know, the way they listen to music. You can do all kinds of things with music. But food - it's something people need, and that changes everything. You start playing with it, people have all sorts of reactions.

Wylie Dufresne

Music Food Struggle Fun People You