Edith Roosevelt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

[On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.
-- Edith Roosevelt

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One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.
-- Edith Roosevelt

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I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life ...
-- Edith Roosevelt

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while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.
-- Edith Roosevelt

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I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.
When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.
I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

Edith Roosevelt famous quotes

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