Great Quotes

'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.

~ David A. Adler

Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.

~ George Porter

The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.

~ Colm Wilkinson

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

~ Ralph Fiennes

America is a great country. It has a lot of work to do. The bottom line is it's easy to talk; it's easy to have the media pick up on something, and it's hard to have the patience to put something in place you can build on that will make sure each citizen has their equal rights.

~ Jim Brown

I started 'SNL,' and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on - 'Oh great' - and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience.

~ Bill Hader

No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now.

~ Henry B. Eyring

When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.

~ Fabrizio Moreira

I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.

~ Mike D

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

~ James Russell Lowell

I've no patience for people who say they never watch television. It's a great way to keep in touch with popular culture, and it's important that children can relate to what their schoolmates are watching.

~ Terry Wogan

The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple techniques. You start with great bread, a well-cured ham and a sharp local cheese, and the rest is easy. A little butter in a pan and a little patience - in the end you'll have a sandwich that is at once comforting and delicious.

~ Daniel Humm

I'm constantly looking for ways to learn and elevate your craft, patience for yourself, and patience for this business. It's not a fair business. You may be great, but it may take years for someone to notice what you're capable of because of politics.

~ Aldis Hodge

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

~ Elisha Cuthbert

I make a mean pecan pie, and I have a great recipe for pralines - also using pecans. Pralines take a lot of patience, and patience is a must in the duck blind as well as in the kitchen. Good things come to those who wait.

~ Phil Robertson

Patience is key. You can't get selfish, and that's the number one thing I've learned at WWE. The world continues to go round, and I just knew - given the right opportunity and the right moment - that the world would know I was good, but now the world knows that I'm great.

~ Sasha Banks

A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.

~ David Josiah Brewer

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

~ Hart Crane

Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

~ Ezekiel Emanuel

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

~ James Dean

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

~ Ram Dass

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

~ Winston Churchill

Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.

~ Elizabeth Warren

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

~ John Keats

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

~ Clarence Darrow

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.

~ Max Lucado

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

~ Alfred Adler

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

~ Hermann Hesse

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.

~ Albert Brooks

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

~ Elon Musk

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

~ Jimmy Chin

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

~ Blaise Pascal

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

~ B. R. Hayden

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

~ D. H. Lawrence

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

~ Theodore Parker

I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.

~ Roz Chast

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

~ George Eliot