Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

On the Heights of Despair

Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.

On the Heights of Despair

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

We're growing up and I don't like it," said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.

Betsy Was a Junior

In the 1970s in New York everyone slept till noon.

City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

August Wilson

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

Norman Lamm

I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.

Aaron Swartz

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Ausonius

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Baltasar Gracian

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

Bear Grylls

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

Brian Selznick

When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped the border. I didn't speak any English.

Cesar Millan

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.

Diablo Cody

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

Delmore Schwartz

I became a Christian at age 4. I turned from my wicked ways and decided to walk the straight and narrow - but seriously, I actually remember coming to the Lord then and starting my long walk with Him.

David A. R. White

When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

Francis Ford Coppola

Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to get the benefit of my inestimable talents.

Glen Duncan

Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.

Gloria Steinem

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

Gloria Steinem