Little Quotes - 10
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I have a dream. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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More Little Quotes
Her underlip protruded a little; she had a way of sucking it in that somebody else had told her was awfully fascinating.
Beauchamp— 1920 Bliss and Other Stories,'Prelude'.
The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Bible (Apocrypha)— Ecclesiasticus 38:24-5.
Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love, and a little for the bottle.
Porfirio Diaz— 1797 'Captain Wattle and Miss Roe'.
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 'The Five Orange Pips' (1892)
Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases.
— The Duchess's lullaby. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), chapter 6, "Pig and Pepper".
His slang?was always a little out of date, as though he had studied in a dictionary of popular usage, but not in the latest edition.
— 1966 The Comedians, pt.1, ch.1.
I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on. I know not why it should be a matter of congratulation that persons who are already richer than any one needs to be, should have doubled their means of consuming things which give little or no pleasure except as representative of wealth.
john stuart mill— 1848 Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.
Skullion had little use for contraceptives at the best of times.Unnatural, he called them, and placed them in the lower social category of things along with elastic-sided boots and made-up bow ties. Not the sort of attire for a gentleman.
Tom (Thomas Ridley) Sharpe— 1974 Porterhouse Blue, ch.9.
If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.
susan blackmore— Life lessons, Guardian, 04/07/2005
I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings.
james cameron— The Best of Cameron (Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1981) p. 49. ISBN 0450048810.
They are extraordinarily like children, these little people of the Antarctic world, either like children, or like old men, full of their own importance and late for dinner, in their black tail-coats and white shirt-fronts — and rather portly withal.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard— The Worst Journey in the World (1922)
Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.
judy garland— As quoted in Little Girl Lost (1974) by Al DiOrio, p. 9
"I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days."
willie nelson— Nelson, Willie; McMurtry, Larry (2003). The Facts of Life: And Other Dirty Jokes. Random House Digital. p. 29. ISBN 9780375758607.
We did long for the pitter-patter of little feet, so we decided to buy a dog. Cheaper, and… get more feet.
rita rudner— When Dr. Katz asks whether she and her husband have discussed children
— Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, "Real Estate" [2.02], 29 October 1995
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
st john, henry, 1st viscount bolingbroke— Reflections upon Exile (1716).
I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
hunter s. thompson— Letter to Kay Menyers (17 March 1958), p. 109
All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.
Kenneth Tynan— "Tennessee Williams" (1956), p. 97
And the Lord Rupert looked at his work, and even he saw that it was a load of crap, but this was the enterprise culture and it sold millions so it was good. And on the same basis he decided to take over the television too, and the earth itself wept, and little robins vomited, and cuddly furry animals threw themselves under trains, and the whole thing was filmed by Sky Channel for a horror nature programme, and the most awful thing of all was that this was just the beginning.
attila the stockbroker— "The Bible according to Rupert Murdoch", from . Retrieved 2007-03-26.
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety...
warren buffett— 1997 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, quoted in Andrew Kilpatrick, Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett (Vol. 2), p. 1615
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying, imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics, "Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of the air!"
thomas carlyle— Richter.
His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
william golding— Ch. 12: The Cry of the Hunters
I remember, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon Nor brought too long a day; But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away.
thomas hood— I Remember, I Remember, st. 1 (1827).
Of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently though as little of one as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
aldous huxley— Ch. 1 (Brave New World (1932))
If the economy of today were operating close to capacity levels with little unemployment, or if a sudden change in our military requirements should cause a scramble for men and resources, then I would oppose tax reductions as irresponsible and inflationary; and I would not hesitate to recommend a tax increase if that were necessary.
john f. kennedy— "Address and Question and Answer Period at the Economic Club of New York (549)," December 14, 1962, Public Papers of the President: John F. Kennedy, 1962.
Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape.
pliny the elder— Book VIII, sec. 126.
I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).
paul theroux— "Being a Man" (1983), from Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries, 1964-84 (Houghton Mifflin, 1986, ISBN 0-395-41501-2, 384 pages), p. 309
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky!
ann taylor— Rhymes for the Nursery, The Star.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon— Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Death.
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
Mark Kennedy— As cited in: Stuart Kantor (2004) Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises. p. 39
