Adams Quotes
82 Adams quotes by 73 unique authors
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The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are…
— David McCullough
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Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of…
— Percival Lowell
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That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has…
— Alexander Hamilton
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My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
— Gavin Bryars
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The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.
— John Ringo
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You gotta be think'n Sam Adams, not drink'n Sam Adams
— Sarah Palin
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Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British…
— Martin McGuinness
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I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough…
— David O. Russell
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I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.
— Erin Morgenstern
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I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American…
— David Cook
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My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured,…
— Mamie Gummer
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I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat…
— Richard Fleeshman
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Adams first law of survival: Get even first.
— Randall Dale Adams
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as…
— Nathan Fillion
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Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.
— Elton John
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Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that…
— Anne Lamott
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Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more…
— Jonathan Raban
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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper…
— Karl Rove
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I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing…
— Stacy Schiff
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It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include…
— David McCullough
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The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he…
— John Dunning
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...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children…
— Sherman Alexie
Who Wrote These Adams Quotes
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