Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Alan Rudolph

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Charles de Gaulle

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Charles Caleb Colton

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

David Mitchell

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

David Graeber

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

David Suzuki

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

Cesare Pavese

Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.

Agnes Martin

I paint with my back to the world

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

Aaron Tveit

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Charlotte Bronte

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Charlotte Bronte

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

Charlie Haden

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Daniels

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

Charlie Chaplin

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Thomas H. Huxley

The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled serpents

Billy Idol

I rocked the cradle of love.

John Wisniewski

Luke's cradle is dominant and classic. Right before he got out there on the mat, we told him to never forget about that cradle, and in the second period he jumped a cradle and Luke pinned him.

Michael Jerrett

We see that pollution is a problem from the cradle to the grave.

Shane Montgomery

When you have to come to work every day and see them on the wall, you realize the people that have been here. Everybody knows Miami as the Cradle of Coaches.

Gwen Moore

You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to grave.

Steve Stockman

Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.

Jack Cullen

He was dominant. The leg cradle was there. If you see it there, you go get it and he did.

Doug Rine

He gets a cradle in that situation a lot. The other kid has a leg and thinks he's in good shape, then all of sudden he's on his back.