- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great Quotes
Quotes on great moments and discoveries.
These quotes use 'great' to describe very different things - a lifelong search for spiritual mystery, nostalgic memories of finding great music collections while living abroad, and an honest mix of great and difficult experiences tied to identity and pride. Related reading: Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Take Advantage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
- Great Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
- Noble
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- Nov 07, 2020
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
- Bounded
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- Nov 07, 2020
America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are happy to get great technology from anywhere, and we have eyes and ears that are checking out companies all over.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020