I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.
Frederick Sanger
Related She didn’t have a good reason for most of what she did. Mostly, she went by what seemed right in t... JOSEPH FINK Look at somebody like Margaret Sanger, who was married young and had kids but then left her husband ... REBECCA TRAISTER She grew up in East Germany and is a natural scientist--that means she was exposed to less pressure ... ALICE SCHWARZER I enjoy the celebration of my birthday as much as anyone else does, but I always remember to start m... CHRISTY TURLINGTON although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did ... E. LOCKHART How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS We [feminists] must all be followers of Margaret Sanger. CRYSTAL EASTMAN She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful thi... FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering hers... CHARLES DANCE I'm not going to let my opponent take something away from me. I want it more than anyone else, and a... MAUREEN SHEA Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she f... ROXANE GAY Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore... ZORA NEALE HURSTON The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margar... MARGARET SANGER I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in ... GEORGE STIGLER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married. OLIVIER MARTINEZ I believe that she more consistently than anyone else, has spoken to the issues that are the concern... DONALD BUCHANAN Historically, in Chinese society, a woman's place in the family was never secure. In her own home, s... CINDY CHU Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worke... CANDICE OLSON It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my... BERNIE MAC A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD She hoped that her baby was happy and would be waiting for her when she herself left Botswana and we... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Joan Frances says her mother is perfect someone she models herself after. She is tortured because sh... LYNN I. WILSON My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her co... BARRY SANDERS Rather than being liberated by er sexuality, a woman's reliance on sexual attractiveness was just on... JEFFREY L. GELLER Show me anyone, sexual or asexual, who isn't in some way fucked-up and I'll gag. The question she sh... DAVID JAY Show me anyone, sexual or asexual, who isn't in some way fucked up and I'll gag, ... The question sh... DAVID JAY My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel... GALE HAROLD Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a perso... MIKE BOND I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva... YVONNE DE CARLO We're going to get supplies there and go back to Sanger. No one else has come to help us. MIR AFZAL If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good moth... AYELET WALDMAN Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER She's a star in her own right -- launched by the show -- but has proven herself on her own. She prov... BARRY JECKELL Who is my biggest inspiration? Wow... I really, without wanting to sound 'aw gee shucks,' I&... CHARLES SHAUGHNESSY I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who ... HENRY ROLLINS [For a second opinion we turn now to David Jay:] Show me anyone, sexual or asexual, who isn't in som... DAVID JAY No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher. MORRISSEY On Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday : "These two simply apprec... STANLEY CAVELL At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then ther... CHRIS HEMSWORTH She hugged me and she was crying really hard, more than I was. She was a little sick today and she t... IVICA KOSTELIC I was the only person she knew on campus that knew anything about gymnastics. That and she couldn't ... DAVID PATTERSON Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER She was herself, the original. Everyone else was just a copy. JON COURTENAY GRIMWOOD We miss her. She had a happy life ... she was at a point in her life where she was comfortable with ... AMY URIELL The guidance, although somewhat more optimistic than it has been, didn't really hit a home run, MICHAEL DAVIES Yey more and more there seemed a bevy of things she was not supposed to think about and by virtue of... JUDITH IVORY It seems that Lorraine Greene has made more of a start at getting things done than anyone else. She ... EDWARD SULLIVAN I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got marri... LAURA DERN Straightaway, they started chatting and telling me their names: Fred and Rose West. I was surprised ... STEPHEN RICHARDS I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important tha... CAMILA ALVES 'I Love Lucy,' the first classic, really belonged more to the Wacky Woman genre than the dom... TOM SHALES There was no chance of anyone else coming in unless somebody went out and I am happy with my squad. ALEX INGLETHORPE She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than a... STEVEN LEVENKRON Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting marri... NATALIE WOOD A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else." -Toyi Ward KAMRYN ADAMS When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but hersel... THOMAS HARDY I traveled nonstop in 2009, so when my son popped out and my passport expired for a while, I felt mo... EMM GRYNER I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm n... UMA THURMAN Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a... L. RON HUBBARD ... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself. SHEL SILVERSTEIN We won it a few times, but that was when we had more family members than anyone else, I guess. A lot... RICHARD PETTY And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able t... ITALO CALVINO Although the government has more money than anyone else, it's one of the toughest defendants to sue ... VICTOR SCHWARTZ I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how s... WILLIAM J. CLINTON A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask ... ARTHUR KORNBERG A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask ... HARMONY KORINE If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than t... ERNESTINE ROSE There are lots of people way more talented than me - but I work more, and I wanted it more. I never ... ESTER DEAN She had a theory that the fear of getting in trouble was what made her not as good a programmer and ... MAUREEN F. MCHUGH Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else. ANGIE HARMON Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English. The three men laughed ... ILONA ANDREWS I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to ... BOBBY FLAY My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was rea... BILLY HOWLE I've never been to jail before. I was married to a lawyer for 31 years. I'm a peaceful person. PEGGY SMITH For a marriage to work, for a relationship to work, it requires commitment and a lot of work. There ... MEG TILLY Fleury has now worn the goalie cam more than anyone else in the league. JEFF SILVERMAN She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged w... CASSANDRA CLARE I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers... JOAN SUTHERLAND My swim was sort of mediocre, but I think it was made up by a fantastic ride by Neil and an even bet... ANDREW STEELE She is a rare soul, she has this infectious energy that makes you want to run next to her, she belon... NIKKI ROWE There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate socia... PERCY WILLIAMS BRIDGMAN When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself. A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and co... JOHN KNOWLES All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy. MICKEY ROONEY More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s w... MEREDITH BAXTER What are you Barrons?” “The one who will never let you die, and that’s more, Ms Lane, tha... KAREN MARIE MONING Show me anyone, sexual or asexual, who isnt in some way fucked-up and Ill gag, ... The question ... DAVID JAY
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FREDERICK SMITH Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips ov... FREDERICK BUECHNER Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo... FREDERICK BUECHNER Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. FREDERICK SPEAKMAN The soul that is within me no man can degrade. FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things nee... FREDERICK DOUGLASS When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef... FREDERICK BUECHNER Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don't have any doubts y... FREDERICK BUECHNER Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow... FREDERICK DOUGLASS The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are bec... FREDERICK BUECHNER A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. FREDERICK DOUGLASS One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor. FREDERICK FARRAR Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else'... FREDERICK BUECHNER Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he ... FREDERICK BAILES Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. FREDERICK WILCOX The soul that is within me no man can degrade. FREDERICK DOUGLAS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thun... FREDERICK DOUGLASS We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but ra... FREDERICK KEONIG The key to your universe is that you can choose. CARL FREDERICK A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to an... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Softly the loud peal dies,
In passing winds it drowns,
But breathes, like perfect joys,
... FREDERICK TENNYSON We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same que... FREDERICK KEONIG I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are ... FREDERICK PERLS In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ar... FREDERICK BUECHNER The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. FREDERICK DOUGLASS A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicio... FREDERICK POLLOCK What would it profit thee to be the first
Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,
A thi... FREDERICK TENNYSON Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. FREDERICK SMITH The only real failure in life is the failure to try. FREDERICK SMITH Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without p... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plo... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a... FREDERICK SODDY No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end faste... FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. FREDERICK DOUGLASS To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of ... FREDERICK DOUGLASS My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small Am... FREDERICK REINES It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,... FREDERICK DOUGLASS The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. FREDERICK DOUGLASS Without a struggle, there can be no progress. FREDERICK DOUGLASS A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any p... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. FREDERICK DOUGLASS I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p... FREDERICK DOUGLASS I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. FREDERICK DOUGLASS One and God make a majority. FREDERICK DOUGLASS As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo... FREDERICK WEISEL Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotles... FREDERICK BUECHNER If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. FREDERICK BUECHNER These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. FREDERICK LEBOYER Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. FREDERICK SODDY America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu... FREDERICK DOUGLASS To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some exte... FREDERICK SODDY I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and th... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things... FREDERICK DOUGLASS A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre... FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Hol... FREDERICK BUECHNER I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. FREDERICK DOUGLASS There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him. FREDERICK DOUGLASS A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once h... FREDERICK SEITZ I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her... FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. FREDERICK DOUGLASS Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery ... FREDERICK BUECHNER But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying, If I am dead, as dead I well may be, You'... FREDERICK WEATHERLY The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost bey... FREDERICK SODDY If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imag... FREDERICK BUECHNER Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your
foot on first. FREDERICK WILCOX We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit
us to use powers that we now ... FREDERICK TILNEY The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. FREDERICK SPEAKMAN There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to
be true to the best we k... FREDERICK FARRAR Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever h... FREDERICK BAILES Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, beari... FREDERICK BUECHNER You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the... FREDERICK WISEMAN The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery FREDERICK DOUGLASS Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst FREDERICK BUECHNER Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any peop... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect FREDERICK SAUNDERS In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ... FREDERICK BUECHNER People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle, there is no progress. FREDERICK DOUGLASS Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not s... FREDERICK FARRAR Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars. FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever fail... FREDERICK FARRAR There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you. FREDERICK LOEWE The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where w... FREDERICK BUECHNER We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but ra... FREDERICK KOENIG Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They wash... FREDERICK TENNYSON When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if t... PAULINE FREDERICK When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef... FREDERICK BUECHNER It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist. JENNIFER FREDERICK