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Edmonia Lewis Quotes

Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.

Edmonia Lewis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sculptor
Nationality: american
Birth: July 4, 1844 - September 17, 1907

Topics

Work I Am Dark Now Sometimes Way

I hate those unrealistic goals that people place on women. It's just not right. It took us nine months to have our babies and put on this weight. I gained 55 pounds with my daughter, so I get it. It's tough. But you can't just pop out a baby and expect to be the size you were before. It just doesn't work like that.

Jessie James Decker

Work Goals Women Daughter Hate Baby

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Me Important Young More Seem Sacred

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

Jesse Ventura

Nature Best Communism Human Nature

Growing up, I watched softball and U.S.A .softball, and that was my goal of being able to represent my country and wear the red, white, and blue out there, and I think it is one of the highest honors to be able to go out there and compete for your country, and it was something so very special, and it was everything I dreamt of and more.

Jennie Finch

Red Blue Growing Up Think Goal Go

Thanks to my parents, who had me traveling around the world mouth-first, I knew from a young age I wanted a career in food.

Andrew Zimmern

Age Food Parents Me World Career

I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.

Andy Dick

I Am Hat Feel Cry Offended Paranoid

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

Megan Rapinoe

People Color Conversation Way Race

I didn't act in college, per se, because I didn't want an acting degree. I don't know what you do with that degree. When I was 16, I saw 'Usual Suspects,' and I wanted to be a director as well. So I thought I should go to school for directing and producing, something I knew nothing about.

Mehcad Brooks

School College Thought You Acting

Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne'er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history, and civil liberties.

Michael Sims

History Job Literature Natural Sage

I actually like jokes as well as things that are sort of fun.

Mitt Romney

Fun Jokes Things Well Like Sort

If you teach someone your craft, while you're teaching them, you're going to learn because you're going to get better at teaching, which is going to make you better at whatever you're doing.

Diamond Dallas Page

Better Learn Someone Doing You Get

There are so many American experiences that we can't know about unless we venture out to create a dialogue, to observe, ask questions, and stay there for a while.

Debra Granik

American Questions Create Know Ask