A lot of people celebrate their past, but I don't look at it all. I don't Google myself; I focus on the… — Sean Maguire Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular… — Don Alias Copy Share Image
Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but… — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one. — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
I wasn't in a position to defend myself. Sometimes it's a brutal profession. The first thing I thought of at the time… — Patrik Sinkewitz Copy Share Image
I would not send my child to a vacation Bible school in 99.9% of the Baptist churches in America. Have some teacher… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don't want to be in the spotlight, ever! I don't know why I got in this profession! — Ana de Armas Copy Share Image
Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating. — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because… — David Bowie Copy Share Image