Theodore Quotes
34 quotes by 29 authors
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A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant…
— Russell Baker
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[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of…
— John Burroughs
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even…
— Edward Abbey
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Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No.
— Douglas Brinkley
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When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the…
— Dale Carnegie
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With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
— Horace
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For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and…
— Julia Alvarez
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Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated…
— David Herbert Donald
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Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
— Krist Novoselic
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For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human order, creativity is…
— Thomas Berry
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Whenever Roosevelt (Theodore) expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew his guest was…
— Dale Carnegie
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As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.
— Andy Borowitz
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The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln,…
— Gutzon Borglum
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Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and developed…
— Frederick Sanger
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In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your Blood'. This dark…
— Joe
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Speech at the Ministerial Conference in Boston (at books.google.com/books?id=LXkYAAAAYAAJ&dq=theodore%20parker%20boston%20kidnapping%20gannett&lr=&pg=PA167&ci=70,748,854,407&source=bookclip#v=onepage&q&f=false)
— Ezra Stiles
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If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John…
— Jeff Greenfield
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John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill,…
— Douglas Brinkley
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For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid…
— Ron Fournier
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George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their…
— Jeff Greenfield
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