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Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.


Henry Anatole Grunwald

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Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Birthplace of Obama: Oahu. Birthplace of Obama's budget policies: Neverland.
STEVE BREEN The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... ...
VIN SCULLY The whole world is a man's birthplace.
CAECILIUS STATIUS Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, a...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They hav...
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HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the b...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn ...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
FREDERIC CHOPIN Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt...
JON MEACHAM To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad...
ALBERT FINNEY This was ratified by a 3-to-1 margin.
BRIAN RAINVILLE England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's f...
XAVI My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thund...
DAVE MORRIS Success in our society has to be ratified by publicity,
CHRISTOPHER LASCH It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in on...
EDGAR DEGAS Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
KHALIL GIBRAN Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one&...
FREYA STARK Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you do...
A. WHITNEY BROWN The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.
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HENRY HOME A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these...
HENRY HOME The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest
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HENRY GRUNWALD My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me...
HENRY GRUNWALD The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in ...
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MARVIN AMMORI Every man's memory is his private literature.
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HANK AARON And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
NORMAN MACCAIG Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
BOB DYLAN Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
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TERRY GLAVIN There's no one anymore disturbed by all of this than [superintendent] Mark Henry.
BOURKE MEAGHER In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I thin...
KENNETH BRANAGH Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
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MICHAEL FROME My birthplace is right over there.
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J. G. BALLARD Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one's hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an a...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES It has been ratified and Mark is rapt.
JOHN BEASLEY If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
LEE IACOCCA One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's t...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN The whole world is a man's birthplace.
CAECILIUS STATIUS The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background...
KIM JONG IL Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old ...
PETER FONDA The union bargaining committee is recommending it be ratified.
ROBERT WEAVER Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
MAUREEN O'HARA Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
MAUREEN O'HARA One s true home is obtained by serving the True One, real Truth comes by being truthful. By falsehoo...
GURU NANAK Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture...
MICHAEL DIRDA A man's home is his wife's castle.
ALEXANDER CHASE I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES This position is fully justified by baseline agreements on the Black Sea Fleet, which were ratified ...
IGOR DYGALO Expectation is the birthplace of all human misery.
JACK TYME We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions...
HENRY CUELLAR With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in da...
LAURIE GRAHAM A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'
TINA BROWN Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
BRENé BROWN The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.
BILL FORSYTH Now they talk on the radio about the record set by Ruth, and DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rare...
ROGER MARIS Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can und...
PETER L. BERGER Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today...
BOB BARR Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau.
HENRY THOREAU It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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DENNIS QUAID We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into ov...
RUPAUL I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry F...
PETER FONDA You can be a protestant in a country known as the birthplace of the Russian orthodox church
SUNDAY ADELAJA One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect f...
YOTAM OTTOLENGHI I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
K. FLAY Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
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ANATOLE FRANCE I've been to Mozart's birthplace.
ADRIENNE CAMFIELD they had not come home, but had left one familiar place of painful memory for another strange place ...
MAYA ANGELOU A kind of memory that tells us
that what we're now striving for was
once
nearer and ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I lived here once," the author said after a moment.
"Here? For a long time?"
"No. For just...
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DOUG COLLINS James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for ...
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DAVID SHIELDS The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth dat...
BRENDAN MYERS An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.
ITALO CALVINO Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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ANATOLE BROYARD When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
ANATOLE BROYARD The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
ANATOLE FRANCE Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE I would rather be right than President.
HENRY CLAY There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night ...
HENRY MILLER