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My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter,… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell… — Sparky Anderson
My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather. — Leonard Marx
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are… — John Eliot
All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others. — Robin Sharma
Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had… — Doris Day
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great. — Booker T. Washington
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence.… — Horace Mann
It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God. — Brother Lawrence
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity. — Pope John Paul II
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything. — Teresa of Avila
Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people… — Charles Spurgeon
There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet. — William Halsey
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this… — William E. Gladstone
Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great… — Marion Jones
The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose. — Michel de Montaigne
My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to… — Alice Walker
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's… — Lucretius
Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for… — Douglas William Jerrold
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. — Lucretius
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is… — Rainer Maria Rilke
If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it… — Alan Armstrong
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty… — Elbert Hubbard
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. — Edmund Burke

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