Their Own Quotes
5619 quotes by 3736 authors
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
— Aristotle
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
— Mary Astell
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their…
— Chinua Achebe
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
— Margaret Atwood
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Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has…
— Jane Austen
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.
— Sebastian Bach
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
— Michele Bachmann
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What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else,…
— Erykah Badu
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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them…
— Ansel Adams
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The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist…
— William Barclay
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Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing…
— Roseanne Barr
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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
— Dave Barry
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little…
— Bruce Barton
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Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
— William Bartram
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be…
— Frederic Bastiat
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