Journalist Birthday Quotes & Sayings

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate. — Edward Dahlberg

As I was when I was getting married myself. I felt exactly like a bride again last evening when I was up on the hill seeing — L.M. Montgomery

Competition is merely the absence of oppression. — Frederic Bastiat

When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I'm just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, 'If I get a chance, I'm going to score' and that's it. — Jermain Defoe

It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

You've been four of the dearest, sweetest, goodest girls who ever went together through college,' averred Aunt Jamesina, who never spoiled a compliment by misplaced economy. — L.M. Montgomery

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people. — Leon Panetta

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. — John Shelby Spong

The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence. — Kate Millett

Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I think in the end we will have negotiations with the House. They don't have any incentive for a long, drawn-out trial. We'll have negotiations with the White House. Despite all their threats they are going to have a prolonged defense. The reality is they are the driving force behind getting this over quickly. — Phil Gramm

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon