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Calvin Coolidge Quotes

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

Calvin Coolidge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: July 4, 1872 - January 5, 1933

Topics

Man Blame Temple Praise Reverence

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

Jodi Picoult

Time Done Three Never Birth Write

Too much agreement kills the chat.

John Jay Chapman

Too Much Agreement Much Chat Too

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

John Irving

Alone Imagination Being Alone Me Kid

I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

Mavis Staples

Family Mother Voice Strong Side Get

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

Matthew McConaughey

Getting Older Wait Forward Starting

Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.

John Rampton

People Short Attention Why Necessary

After the maxi yuan depreciation of 1994 and until 2005, exchange-rate fixity was the order of the day, with little movement in the CNY/USD rate.

Steve Hanke

Day Movement Little Order Until

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.

Ruth Reichl

Children Government Generation Policy

During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a sense of safety and source of help for the people in need. They did not leave communities until people were safe and sound.

Russel Honore

People Safety Help Sound Need Leave

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

Roy Ayers

Work Feel Artist Others Same Always

I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.

Mitski

Time Hobby Offended Assume Been

I was a sitting judge in Manhattan. I was a supervising judge in Manhattan, and they said to me, 'Did you ever think of doing what you do on television?'

Judy Sheindlin

Me Think Judge Doing You Television