Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

F. Sionil Jose

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

Hanna Rosin

Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.

Julian Baggini

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

John Cheever

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Joyce Meyer

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

James Rollins

In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.

John Burnham Schwartz

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Keith Henson

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

Kevin McCloud

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

Lloyd Alexander

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

Michelle Obama

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

Matthew Quick

My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.

Marilynne Robinson

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.

F. Sionil Jose

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.

Henry Williamson

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

Joseph Joubert

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

John Milton

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Jean Paul