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Harmon Killebrew Quotes

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Harmon Killebrew

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: June 29, 1936 - May 17, 2011

Topics

Family Father Mother Brother Me You

First thing you have to understand is that freestyling is much different than making hip-hop music: there's another whole element to being a hip-hop MC.

John Cena

Music You Hip-Hop Understand First

We're living in a time where I think most people are wanting someone to invite them respectfully to a policy position, not try to just slash and burn the other person.

Jeff Fortenberry

Time People Think Someone Burn Try

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

John Steinbeck

Long You Old Pencil Tool Fingers

When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.

Amy Chua

Mother School Parents Law Fashion

I was just happy with having friends that I liked and going to shows that I wanted to see.

Soccer Mommy

Happy Friends See Going Just Wanted

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

Rita Ora

Greatness Myths Michael Jackson Were

I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.

Romola Garai

Think Perfect Bad Intelligent Always

Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, where people don't follow fashion. They're not galloping past your window on the way to the latest anything. They're living their lives. You do a play, they come and see it and say, 'That's nice', and then they go home.

Mike Nichols

Home Past People Window Fashion You

Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.

Derek Bok

Problems Enough Accomplish Write

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

Dean Kamen

Technology Ideas New New Ideas Than

I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.

Bruce Dickinson

I Am Speak Now Right Break Well

We all have a role to play in creating safe environments where everyone can be free to work without fear.

Anna Wintour

Work Fear Free Creating Play Safe