(422 quotes found)
“We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort”
Christopher Morley
“Believe in something larger than yourself.”
Barbara Bush
“Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess”
Walter Savage Landor
“A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.”
Barbara Ehrenreich
“I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do . . .”
Sally Field
“I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America.”
Hinton Helper
“Is it larger than a bread box?”
Steve Allen
“When you perform you are out of yourself-larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.”
Agnes De Mille
“We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.”
Catherine Booth
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