Small Quotes

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.

I think you're much more approachable when you're on a small screen.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

I like small stories.

We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more.

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.

As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.

Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.