#settled

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#business #came #chicago #children #dad

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#i #nostalgic #seldom #settled

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#day #decisions #great #iron #majority

Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#earlier #everybody #i #i think #issues

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed. ↗

— Paul Engle

#christmas #christmas eve #eve #hand #i

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#avoid #been #claim #claiming #consensus

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#completely normal #going #i #into #know

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations. ↗

— Henry Villard

#chairs #curious #either #fingers #him

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul. ↗

— Jones Very

#feeling #forever #foundation #human #human soul

I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#ballerina #born #come #early #family