Theodore Quotes · Page 2

In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation…

— Frederick Lenz

When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of…

— Candice Millard

Arguably there's no school for any high position of leadership. That said, Theodore Roosevelt was remarkably well prepared for the presidency. He…

— James M Strock

It is Hillary's [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael…

— Gail Sheehy

The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about…

— B. C. Forbes

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in…

— Frederick Sanger

For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a…

— Julia Alvarez

For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human…

— Thomas Berry

We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as…

— Jeffrey Rosen

William McKinley has surely been underrated - in no small part because he was succeeded by a memorable leader, Theodore Roosevelt.

— James M Strock

My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly…

— Brother Theodore

Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current…

— Kenneth Minogue

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

— Theodore Roosevelt

It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. .…

— John Dos Passos

Theodore Roosevelt is of singular interest, because he was, in many evident ways, a self-created figure. He transformed his life into performance…

— James M Strock

hat whole phrase, "daring greatly," is from the Theodore Roosevelt quote that goes back to your original question of, what about the…

— Brené Brown

I often ask myself: "What would Theodore Roosevelt do?" One can never know, of course. The ultimate contribution of consequential leaders is…

— James M Strock

I take his [Theodore Geisel] legacy very, very seriously. I know others may disagree because he's made such an impact on so…

— Christopher Meledandri

There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the…

— Nat Hentoff

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

— Krist Novoselic

Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time." I'd heard a small part of it…

— Peter van Agtmael

When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he…

— Dale Carnegie

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

— Dorothy Parker

Do you think Bernie Sanders, for example, is citing Theodore Roosevelt as the progenitor of his critique of the banks when actually…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I read the poem [In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke] because I was intrigued and had one of those strange senses:…

— Peter van Agtmael