Bayard Taylor Quotes

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.

Bayard Taylor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 11, 1825 - December 19, 1878

Topics

CityWorldFoundationTraditionDate

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ManCleverMinorBlundersClever Man

We don't teach our children how to dream.

Stephen LaBerge

ChildrenDreamTeachOurHow

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

Stephen Ambrose

LiveGovernmentYouLivingJuryHow

I'm very happy with the opportunities I've had.

Sigourney Weaver

HappyOpportunitiesVeryHad

I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.

Ruben Blades

PeopleSpeakStoryYouKnowNever

I've given many lessons in many sports over the years to many different people.

Martina Navratilova

SportsPeopleOverDifferent People

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Lucille Ball

HappyStartYouBeingAbleMakes

I had a few celebrity crushes when I was growing up, including Eddie Kendricks from the Temptations. And I loved Marvin Gaye - I thought he was everything and instantly fell for his voice.

Dianne Reeves

Growing UpVoiceThoughtLovedUp

The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.

Clint Black

LiveTruthTimeHatePeopleRich

In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.

Chuck Palahniuk

WorkWordsPurposeYouLineFifty

Trade allegedly does not foster growth because when it begins, a flood of imports of factory origin destroys the handicraft manufacturing of the less developed country: the models for this are the effects of British exports of textiles and of iron in India and Chile in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Arthur Lewis

GrowthCountryIndiaManufacturing

Originally, technology was pretty clearly on the side of introversion. It allowed introverts to connect with people, to express their ideas in a less stimulating way: you're sitting alone behind a computer. But I'm starting to think that the pressure to self-present constantly online is becoming so extreme.

Susan Cain

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