Any Quote by Mary Gordon Download Open image “I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.” — Mary Gordon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Any Be happy Children Happy Mean Success Trade Would
I will feel like a success if I raise my children to be kind and happy people. — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and… — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful. — Michael Grimm Copy Share Image
Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Obviously, I want my kids to be happy, and I believe that they can be super successful at whatever they want to do, but… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I have to be honest about this: I wouldn't tell a lot of kids to go and be writers. It's a tough, tough business.… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams! — David Vitter Copy Share Image
Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If I could teach my children only one thing, it would be the skill of marketing. For with that skill, they could be successful… — Howard Ruff Copy Share Image
In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church in America is the Irish church. It is our church, end of story. We built it. We paid for it. It… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of guilty indebtedness to the old neighborhood.” — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction. — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student's lives, but they're not going to march about it or take a… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“Look, just because I'm an angry, repressed, Irish-Catholic feminist doesn't mean I hate everything. I only hate youth, beauty, the human body, nature, technological… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.” — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad,… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program. — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them;… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
