Quotes of: Theodore Keyword

Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to...

Dan Buettner

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

Elaine Pagels

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

Ernest Shackleton

Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.

Eric Williams

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

Fernand Braudel

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

Frank Moore Colby

Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.

Francis Galton

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

Ginny Brown-Waite

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

George Clooney

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

Christopher Dawson

The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.

Charles Jencks

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

Carroll Quigley

When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.

Carroll Quigley

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

Cheryl Strayed

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.

Henri Pirenne

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

Harold Washington

When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

Iris Chang

We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.

Iris Chang

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

James Truslow Adams