#radu

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#came #civilization #evolved #existence #french

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#accomplishes #admired #celebrated #class #firm

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long. ↗

— Gloria Stuart

#girl #graduated #high #i #likely

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#fans #feel #gradual #grow #grow up

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

#away #deserved #die #gradually #irritated

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#aware #changes #designs #gradually #i

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#college student #did #graduation #i #indonesia

When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency. ↗

— George Tenet

#agency #any #best #came #case

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#audience #been #composers #every #first

I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it. ↗

— William M. Thomas

#go #graduated #high #high school #i