Blacksmiths Quotes - Page 2

• If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire...if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores...if women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote...if a generation could defeat a depression, and define greatness for all time...if a young preacher could lift us to the mountaintop with his righteous dream...and if proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love...then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Country, Badass

  Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• La gente que salía de una sesión con el Dr. S. solía tener el aspecto de haber pasado cincuenta minutos en el yunque con un aprendiz de herrero.

  Margaret Halsey

  Médicos, Personas, Cincuenta

  Margaret Halsey (1977). "No Laughing Matter: La autobiografía de una avispa", Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.

  Marianne Moore

  Experts, Unicorn, Disappear

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.78, Penguin

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• Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.

  Don Tapscott

  Technology, Order, Marketing

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• My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.

  Willie Nelson

  Jobs, Men, Guitar

  Entrevista con Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. 12 de mayo de 2015.

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• 'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the perfect satisfaction of both parties, if they are worthy the name of Englishman.

  Joseph Furphy

  Party, Expression, Play

  Joseph Furphy (2016). “Such is Life”, p.342, Joseph Furphy

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• El críquet de pueblo se extendió rápidamente por todo el país. En aquellos días, antes de que se convirtiera en algo científico, el críquet era el mejor juego del mundo para ver, con su rápida secuencia de divertidos incidentes, ¡cada bola una crisis potencial!

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Verano, Niños, Diversión

  "Historia social inglesa".

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• If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

  Marc Andreessen

  Morning, Real, People

  "Andreessen on Charlie Rose: 'I Am Creating A Fund'". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. February 20, 2009.

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• I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Two, People, Wonder

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.999, e-artnow

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