![My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long [run], it will make some sort of change somewhere.](/assets/img/quote-photos/my-parents-taught-me-as-a-kid-do-your-work-do-it-well-try-as-hard-as-you-can.jpg)
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running should-have principles
What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations. Charles Taylor
running dirty taken
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there. Charles Dudley Warner
running dog kids
It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day. Charles de Lint
running heart doors
She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
running building-up house
He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again. Charles Dickens
running men roots
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old. Charles Caleb Colton
running vices common
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
running moving views
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.
running men hands
Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.
kids loyal afghanistan
I've been to Iraq three times. I've been to Afghanistan, I've been quite a few places, and I want to tell you something, these kids, they're the best we've got. They're the best Americans, they're the most loyal Americans we've got. And we owe them when they come back. Charlie Daniels
kids kingdoms crosses
All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
kids wells understood
Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it. Alanis Morissette
kids winning
You'll never win anything with kids Alan Hansen
kids scientist natural
Kids are natural scientists. Alan Alda
kids mind desperate
In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid. Al Purdy
kids gang-members wife
Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it. Al Madrigal
kids enjoyed
I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself. Al Lewis
kids sure various
We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction. Brad Lancaster
long design enough
That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else. Charlie Chaplin
long live-free quebec
Long live free Quebec! Charles de Gaulle
long live-free quebec
Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
long vengeance retribution
Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
long wit long-time
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
long trials hardship
You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope. Charles Stanley
long might serving-god
I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might. Charles Spurgeon
long people giving
I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.
long eternity endless
Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!