Jamie Ford quote: "Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you by what you do, by what your actions say about you. And coming here, despite your parents, says a lot to them- and me. And they're Americans first. They don't see you as the enemy. They see you as a person."

I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes i...
JAMIE FORD

From character Henry Lee in the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, " He'd learned long ago: pe...
JAMIE FORD

Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't...
JAMIE FORD

lunch today?
JAMIE FORD

-Kuinka kauan sinä odotat minua?
-Niin kauan kuin on tarvis. En välitä siitä mitä isäni s...
JAMIE FORD

It didn’t matter. He’d learned long ago: perfection isn’t what families are all about.
JAMIE FORD

People relations is hard business. Hard to keep that going.
JAMIE FORD

opened it.
JAMIE FORD

The waitress brought a fresh pot of tea, and Marty refilled his father’s cup and poured a cup for ...
JAMIE FORD

Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- i...
JAMIE FORD

...the mechanics of dying...
JAMIE FORD

Henry handed the record to his old friend, who draped it across his chest. His eyes closed as if he ...
JAMIE FORD

Henry looked up and down the empty avenue—no cars or trucks anywhere. No bicycles. No paperboys. N...
JAMIE FORD

I try not to live in the past, he thought, but who knows, sometimes the past lives in me.
JAMIE FORD

I am what you made me, Father.
JAMIE FORD

Good Morning, Henry. How's it feel to be a prisoner for a day?' Henry looked at Keiko. 'Best day of ...
JAMIE FORD

The more Henry though about the shabby old knickknacks, the forgotten treasures, the more he wondere...
JAMIE FORD

Loyalty. We're still loyal to the United States of America. Why? Because we too are Americans. We do...
JAMIE FORD

So Henry found himself stepping off the bus three stops early and wandering over to the Panama Hotel...
JAMIE FORD

A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Ar...
JAMIE FORD

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.
JAMIE FORD

Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had ar...
JAMIE FORD

It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of c...
JAMIE FORD

I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home.
JAMIE FORD

But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possibl...
JAMIE FORD

He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.
JAMIE FORD

Hope can get you through anything.
JAMIE FORD

Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone...
JAMIE FORD

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me
JAMIE FORD

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.
JAMIE FORD

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right an...
JAMIE FORD

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
FORD MADOX FORD

Upon my soul!' Tietjens said to himself, 'that girl down there is the only intelligent living soul I...
FORD MADOX FORD

I may really say that for a quarter of a century I have kept before me one unflinching aim - to regi...
FORD MADOX FORD

Well she was bright; and she danced...And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in exist...
FORD MADOX FORD

You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned t...
FORD MADOX FORD

But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, ...
FORD MADOX FORD

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don&#...
HARRISON FORD

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and...
HARRISON FORD

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones...
HARRISON FORD

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat...
HARRISON FORD

We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrad...
HARRISON FORD

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was...
HARRISON FORD

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see t...
HARRISON FORD

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
HARRISON FORD

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
HARRISON FORD

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
HARRISON FORD

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a ...
HARRISON FORD

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
HARRISON FORD

We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislo...
HARRISON FORD

I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our pr...
HARRISON FORD

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
HARRISON FORD

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the huma...
HARRISON FORD

I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescu...
HARRISON FORD

Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victim...
DEBBIE FORD

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
HENRY FORD

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD

I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita...
TOM FORD

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the ...
HENRY FORD

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
HENRY FORD

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I...
TOM FORD

I started to dance and kind of entertained the crowd when I wasn't on the job, and the people seemed...
AL FORD

I've been dancing all my life. I even won a contest at the Apollo Theatre in 1968.
AL FORD

They've been putting it in for four years. They all are special girls who respect the program ..I'm ...
AL FORD

They're in my league, I've seen them for four years, and they're special kids. You don't wake up one...
AL FORD

I can understand if he was a bit agitated. But at the same time we don't have an aggressive audience...
AL FORD

Whenever you exert that much energy coming back, it's so hard getting over the hump. Defensively, we...
AL FORD

She is the catalyst, the quarterback, she is the engine and everybody else feeds off of her. I can?t...
AL FORD

It?s amazing. I knew she could shoot the ball. Sometimes I think it?s a confidence level for her and...
AL FORD

We played hard. We gave it our best shot. We were hoping to come in here and steal one like (Eastern...
AL FORD

On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember wh...
HARRISON FORD

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD

Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you're looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel t...
DEBBIE FORD

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstan...
TOM FORD

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
FORD FRICK

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
FORD FRICK

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
FORD FRICK

Keep your eye on the ball.
FORD FRICK

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
FORD FRICK

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
FORD FRICK

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as we...
FORD FRICK

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
FORD FRICK

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
FORD FRICK

I'll never throw away my blue jeans.
SUSAN FORD

There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot ...
TOM FORD

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need t...
DEBBIE FORD

When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can ...
BETTY FORD

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
RICHARD FORD

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
HENRY FORD

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for ...
HENRY FORD

If you think you can do it, or you think you can't do it, You are right.
HENRY FORD

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - int...
HENRY FORD

Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour of his titles.
JOHN FORD

Diamonds cut diamonds.
JOHN FORD

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own bu...
HENRY FORD

You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when yo...
DEBBIE FORD

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
FORD MADDOX

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from ...
GLENN FORD

I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact,...
HARRISON FORD

The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think...
HARRISON FORD

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays you...
HENRY FORD

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
LEIGHTON FORD

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough...
HENRY FORD

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire...
HENRY FORD

She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words
COREY FORD

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerabilit...
ANNA FORD

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the bettermen...
HENRY FORD

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.
HENRY FORD

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. ...
HENRY FORD

Don't find fault, find a remedy.
HENRY FORD

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
HENRY FORD

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
HENRY FORD

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
HENRY FORD

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, inte...
HENRY FORD

Never complain. Never explain.
HENRY FORD

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
HENRY FORD

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
HENRY FORD

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
HENRY FORD

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting o...
HARRISON FORD

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
HENRY FORD

The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, t...
HENRY FORD

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
HENRY FORD

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
HENRY FORD

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
HENRY FORD

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching arou...
HENRY FORD

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
HENRY FORD

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the w...
HENRY FORD

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it b...
HENRY FORD

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
HENRY FORD

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
HENRY FORD

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
HENRY FORD

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to th...
HENRY FORD

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar...
HENRY FORD

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
HENRY FORD

If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be en...
HENRY FORD

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.
HENRY FORD

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one...
RICHARD FORD

History is more or less bunk.
HENRY FORD

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to dea...
HENRY FORD

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
HENRY FORD

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I...
HENRY FORD

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what h...
HENRY FORD

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can s...
HENRY FORD

Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ON...
HENRY FORD

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.
JOHN FORD

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
HENRY FORD

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
HENRY FORD

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
HENRY FORD

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
ANNA FORD

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
HENRY FORD

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it.
HENRY FORD

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorro...
HENRY FORD

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
HENRY FORD

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead o...
HENRY FORD

The guy has baggy pants, flat feet, the most miserable, bedraggled-looking little bastard you ever s...
STERLING FORD

Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow
JOHN FORD

A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.
HENRY FORD

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes t...
HENRY FORD

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
HENRY FORD

Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obvious...
HENRY FORD

You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. You're my love and my best friend. And ev...
HENRY FORD

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
HARRISON FORD

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HENRY FORD

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right
HENRY FORD

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain
HENRY FORD

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
JOHN FORD

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.
HARRISON FORD

The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obv...
HENRY FORD

What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
HENRY FORD

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the presen...
HENRY FORD

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
HARRISON FORD

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.
LITA FORD

By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability...
DEBBIE FORD

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charg...
HENRY FORD

I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it mad...
BETTY FORD

I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the ...
RICHARD FORD

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book...
HARRISON FORD

When you take the time to cleanse your physical body of accumulated stress and toxicity, you are rew...
DEBBIE FORD

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished some...
HENRY FORD

It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at ...
HARRISON FORD

Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our dee...
DEBBIE FORD

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
HENRY FORD

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HENRY FORD

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
HENRY FORD

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
HENRY FORD

I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in...
HARRISON FORD

It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner ...
DEBBIE FORD

When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is...
TOM FORD

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.
TOM FORD

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
HENRY FORD

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.
LUKE FORD

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world f...
LUKE FORD

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebod...
DEBBIE FORD

Often, psychological laziness will have you switch your life over to autopilot and fall asleep at th...
DEBBIE FORD

If you look to your past or even your present to see why you are here or what your purpose is, you m...
DEBBIE FORD

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