Abraham A. Ribicoff Quotes

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

Abraham A. Ribicoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 9, 1910 - February 22, 1998

Topics

EducationFatherMePoorEverything

The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

Jim Webb

LifeGreatPeopleDemocracyThink

I had a huge Lisa Frank sticker collection. I traded them.

Jenny Lewis

CollectionStickerThemFrankHad

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

John Irving

LanguageFindingKnowMatterGoing

Even on the red carpet, French celebrities keep it minimal. Think of Charlotte Gainsbourg - the look can be quite undone.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

RedThinkLookRed CarpetCarpet

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

Dominique Moceanu

LifePositiveChangeAdversityTake

The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

ServiceChurchPlaceProsperityNeed

One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too.

Conor Oberst

BestYourselfCareFriendsSomeone

It's not good or bad, but closers have changed things. I don't think you are going to win a World Series without one. Where would the Yankees be without Mariano Rivera?

Bruce Sutter

GoodWinWorldThinkYouBad

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

Antonio Banderas

SocietyAmericanNowPassGoing

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

Mark Edwards

LifeSoulMy SoulPlaceWillAlways

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

Martin Fleischmann

WorkFirstSecretPhaseOurselves

My father fled from the North, hating communism.

Moon Jae-in

FatherCommunismHatingNorth

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