Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.

Vitruvius

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Walter Bagehot

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

Wendy Cope

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Walter Savage Landor

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Arianna Huffington

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Alice Walker

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Camille Paglia

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

Chris Ware

I used to have a blankie, and when my mom had to wash it, I would sit outside the dryer and watch it go round and round, and cry.

Drew Barrymore

My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

Howard Graham Buffett

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

Lena Dunham

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.

Peter Agre

I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.

Rachel Cohn

I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.

Rachel Zoe

My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say.

Susan Smith

Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.

Thalia

My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

Vin Diesel

If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the movies we see and how movies are made.

Anita Elberse

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

Tina Fey

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

Siri Hustvedt

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Annie Besant