Figures Quotes

2652 quotes by 1970 authors

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure… — John Shimkus
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in… — William C. Bryant
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional… — Jim Courier
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a… — David Leavitt
It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has… — Naomi Judd
You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love. — May Sarton
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it… — Honore de Balzac
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit… — Michael Pollan
I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as… — Frank Gifford
Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone shown such grace and skill in the… — Stephen Jay Gould
It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced. — Winston Churchill
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. — Max Beckmann
Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top… — Bonnie Raitt
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance.… — Felix S. Cohen
In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have… — Lev Grossman
Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give… — Tony Robbins
Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de… — Marianne Williamson
The figure of my father looms large in my imagination. — Jonathan Franzen
The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it. — Joy Williams
The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do. — Bob Goff

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