Association Quotes · Page 23

Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn…

— Washington Irving

Alan [Ferber] is a great trombonist and composer. I'm thankful that I got some associations like that through peers and former students.…

— Jon Gordon

Off pitch, I keep things simple. I enjoy spending time with my family. I never forget my roots and regularly give back…

— Yaya Toure

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through…

— Alberto Manguel

I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had…

— Jon Gordon

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside…

— Daniel Crevier

Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts ... At the time…

— Nilus of Sinai

I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)

— Ronald Reagan

Our Heavenly Father has organized us into families for the purpose of helping us successfully meet the trials and challenges of life.…

— Rex D. Pinegar

Will you not, as a loyal student of dear old Baylor, lay aside for a few days the usual cares of life,…

— Samuel Palmer

The moment of true capitulation came when the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association quietly took Mormonism off the list of apostate religious groups.

— Anthea Butler

Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.

— D. Todd Christofferson

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel…

— Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No…

— Anne Lamott

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like…

— Ishmael Reed

Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

— Orson Scott Card

Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, was nominated by President Bush in 2003 and plans to start the job any day now.…

— Jon Stewart

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

— Fredrik Bajer

There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to…

— Evgeny Morozov

I think the cloud of suspicion has been hanging over baseball for a while. I think there has been some positive things…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing,…

— Andrew Motion

Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of…

— Charles Caleb Colton