Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
Berkeley , Hume, Kant , Fichte , Hegel , James , Bergson all are united in one earnest attempt, the attempt to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained -… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
It is not the dignitaries who are the real cause of hope, however. What is an enormously refreshing and hopeful sign is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Right is incredibly deft at getting earnest about all the wrong things. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
