#quote

What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre! ↗

— Robert Palmer

#becomes #bizarre #currency #ends #gets

What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#administration #control #did #fields #first

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conversation #i #myself #often #quote

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#me #quote #saying

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#art

If everybody else your age is doing something very different than what you're doing, there's always going to be someone saying to you you might not succeed with it, you might not make any money with that... there's always going to be some type of obstacle in the way. All of those things will go away if you really focus on what makes you happy. ↗

— Kevin Clash

#age

My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can’t change the past, but the future isn’t set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone) ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#change

To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #fear #fears #inspirational-life #inspirational-living

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. ↗

— L.R. Knost

#children #inspirational-quotes #motherhood #parenting #age

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#old-age #old-sayings #age