Archived Quotes

I’m not a girl trying to be a singer,

I’m a singer trying to be a girl.

Riches don’t make a man rich,

they only make him busier.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing

off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you.

It is different with us.

Here it is every fellow for himself,

or he doesn't get there.

Journalism is what we need to inform and guide democracy.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time,

loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

You don’t take a photograph,

you make it.

Try not to become

A man of success.

Rather become

A man of value.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts

and only asks to be loved.

The charm of fishing is that

it is the pursuit of what is

elusive but attainable

a perpetual series of

occasions for hope.

Set your goals high,

and don't stop till you get there

Bo Jackson

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more,

but those giving more.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up,

this diminishes fear;

knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Experience teaches you to take responsibility for your actions.

Every book is a quotation;

and every house is a quotation out of all forests,

and mines,

and stone quarries;

and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Between stimulus and response there is a space.

In that space is our power to choose our response.

If you’re going to be thinking,

you might as well think big.

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed

with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of

our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with

everything imported?

Stand with anybody that stands right,

stand with him while he is right and part with him

when he goes wrong.

Good breeding consists in concealing

how much we think of ourselves and

how little we think of the other person.