Coolidge was known for his terse speech and reticence. A woman bet her friend that she could get Coolidge to speak to her, which was something he was reluctant to do. She went up to him and said: Hello, Mr. President, I bet my friend that I could get you to say three words to me. You lose, Coolidge replied dryly, and walked away.
~quote about Insults by Author Unknown
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~quotes on Vegetarianism by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab Notes When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn
~sayings on Hang in There by Harriet Beecher Stowe It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.
~quotations on Grandparents by Christopher Morley We're Americans - with a capital A! And do you know what that means? Do you? It means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
~motivational quote for teenager by From the movie Stripes If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
~saying about teenager by Malcolm X
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~quote about Risk by Brooks Atkinson Hungry not only for bread -- but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing -- but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks -- but homeless because of rejection.
~quotes on Attitude by Mother Teresa Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
~sayings on Summer by Erma Bombeck It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
~quotations on Adversity by Cicero No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
~motivational quote for teenager by Ambrose Bierce He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
~saying about teenager by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance The fireworks begin todayEach diploma is a lighted matchEach one of you is a fuse
~quote about Graduation by Edward Koch I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies' hands - after all, one must start somewhere.
~quotes on Kisses by Sacha Guitry Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
~sayings on Carpe Diem by Ruth Ann Schabacker Most unhappy and frustrated people are that way because they’re trying to do something nature didn’t equip them for.
~quotations on Career by When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
~motivational quote for teenager by Laurence Olivier It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
~saying about teenager by Brigitte Bardot It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
~quote about Responsibility by Stanley Milgram Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
~quotes on Listening by Winston Churchill In a 'USA Today' interview, Vanna White said since her son has been born, she wants to work less. Vanna, you turn *tiles* for a living. If you worked any less, you'd be the triangle player in the 'K.C. and the Sunshine Band
~sayings on Celebrity by Dennis Miller Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down
~quotations on For a Friend by Oprah Winfrey It isn't the whistle that pulls the train.
Saying is one thing and doing another.
~motivational quote for teenager by Vermont Proverb What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion?
~saying about teenager by Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
~quote about Self by Robert Louis Stevenson A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
~quotes on Literature by Italo Calvino, The Literature Machine I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in
~sayings on Earth Day by John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
~quotations on Writing by Fay Weldon It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
~motivational quote for teenager by Ernest Hemingway It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.
~saying about teenager by Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
~quote about Hypocrisy by Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894 Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
~quotes on Helping by Mother Teresa Love: Two minds without a single thought
~sayings on Love by Philip Barry All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
~quotations on Laziness by Mark Kennedy Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
~motivational quote for teenager by Charles Simic Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.
~saying about teenager by Author Unknown Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
~quote about Sports by Alec Douglas Home There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship.
~quotes on Marriage by Iris Murdoch
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