Quotes by American Authors - Page 129

The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
Kate Capshaw
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Abraham Lincoln
If you can learn from hard knocks you can also learn from soft touches.
Carolyn Kenmore
Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young plain old poverty can be enough along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it don't become a writer.
Leon Uris
They never die who have the future in them.
Meridel Le Sueur
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin
I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?
Wendy Liebman
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
Catfish Hunter
There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.
Hester Mundis
Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.
Rita Rudner
My mother phones daily to ask "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no she adds "So if you're not too busy call me while I'm still alive " . . . and hangs up.
Erma Bombeck
It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
Mark Twain
No matter how old a mother is she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Father reading report card: One thing in your favor - with these grades you couldn't possibly be cheating.
Jacob Braude
No matter what Dad was always there with solid words of advice . . . "Go ask your mother."
Alan Ray
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby
Sure I love the dear silver that shines in your hair And the brow that's all furrowed and wrinkled with care. I kiss the dear fingers so toil-worn for me Oh God bless you and keep you Mother Machree.
Rida Johnson Young
For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
William Ross Wallace
Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother.
Anne Taylor
When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
The bravest battle that ever was fought Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not It was fought by the mothers of men.
Joaquin Miller
All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
What is home without a mother?
Alice Hawthorne
She's somebody's mother boys you know For all she's aged and poor and slow.
Mary Dow Brine
Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oft when the white still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart I have felt it like a glory in my heart.
Edwin Markham
Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?
David Halberstam
Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.
Charles M. Sheldon
Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
Emily Dickinson
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What humbugs we are who pretend to live for Beauty and never see the Dawn!
Logan Pearsall Smith
Look to the East where up the lucid sky The morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.
Celia Thaxter
I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.
James Dickey
Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.
Mahalia Jackson
There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me my beautiful unknown.
Jessica Powers
A day dawns quite like other days in it a single hour comes quite like other hours but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
Maltbie D. Babcock
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David Thoreau
My credo is etched on my mirror in my bathroom and I see it when I brush my teeth in the morning. It says "Don't worry Be Happy Feel Good." When you see that first thing and you reflect on it the rest of the day seems to glide by pretty well.
Larry Hagman
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
Lorraine Hansbury
Get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful but if you will force yourself to smile you'll... be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expression of a given mental mood any given mood then that mental mood itself will follow.
Kenneth Goode
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
Ronald Reagan
As soon as you open your eyes in the morning you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start no matter what the past has been.
George Matthew Adams
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. ... If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again you may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
Ralph Waldo Trine
Everyday ask yourself the question "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict ?"
Gerald Jampolsky
You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era it should never leave you.
Leontyne Price
I'm a most lucky and thankful woman. Lucky and thankful for each morning I wake up. For three wonderful daughters and one son. For an understanding and very loving husband with whom I've shared fifty-two blessed years all in good health.
Thelma Elliott
I thank You God for this most amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.
E.E. Cummings
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
Kahlil Gibran
Let us then be up and doing with a heart for any fate.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is you still have to get out of it.
Grace Slick
God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be seeing the world made new every morning as if it were the morning of the first day and then to make the most of it for the individual soul as if each were the last day is the daily curriculum of the mind's desire.
John H. Finley
Whether one is twenty forty or sixty whether one has succeeded failed or just muddled along whether yesterday was full of sun or storm or one of those dull days with no weather at all life begins each morning! ... Each morning is the open door to a new world-new vistas new aims new tryings.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
Martha Stewart
Always begin anew with the day just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
George E. Woodberry
Even if a farmer intends to loaf he gets up in time to get an early start.
Edgar Watson Howe
We sail at sunrise daily "outward bound."
Helen Hunt Jackson