Greatest Quotes

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.