I cried with pride as I looked into the face of a midwife from the next generation of baby catchers.
PEGGY VINCENT If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; ...
PEGGY NOONAN My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chos...
PEGGY NOONAN Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the...
PEGGY NOONAN Read good, big important things.
PEGGY NOONAN Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are...
PEGGY NOONAN Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
PEGGY NOONAN Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something miss...
PEGGY NOONAN I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from ...
PEGGY NOONAN You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
PEGGY NOONAN Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents...
PEGGY NOONAN If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be...
PEGGY NOONAN Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
PEGGY NOONAN Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known o...
PEGGY NOONAN If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do y...
PEGGY NOONAN I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
PEGGY CAHN The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
PEGGY FLEMING Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who p...
PEGGY NOONAN Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don'...
PEGGY NOONAN We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.
PEGGY FLEMING Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
PEGGY NOONAN Part of courage is simple consistency.
PEGGY NOONAN Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an over...
PEGGY FLEMING I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat...
PEGGY NOONAN Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.
PEGGY NOONAN I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after ...
PEGGY FLEMING The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so m...
PEGGY NOONAN You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don...
PEGGY NOONAN I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock....
PEGGY NOONAN I feel the same magic about 'Angel Falls' that I did with 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mod ...
PEGGY LIPTON What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that thos...
PEGGY NOONAN No one knows me with dark hair.
PEGGY LIPTON Opening myself to criticism was a big door to go through. You can be afraid about something your who...
PEGGY RATHMANN The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what a...
PEGGY NOONAN I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the fla...
PEGGY NOONAN I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
PEGGY CAHN To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe.
PEGGY JENKINS Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice - like a beautiful, softly swinging hammoc...
PEGGY NOONAN And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we...
PEGGY ORENSTEIN It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it ...
PEGGY ORENSTEIN When a kid graduates from being the youngest in a family to being a big brother or sister, there'...
PEGGY RATHMANN Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination ope...
PEGGY NOONAN The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be ha...
PEGGY NOONAN It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.
PEGGY JOYCE Every grade level should examine these things, just in a different way.
PEGGY ALTOFF I think what we want kids to know about war, and about this particular war, is ... where it's happen...
PEGGY ALTOFF It's like taking a group of teachers and telling doctors how to practice. And yet it seems to me tha...
PEGGY ALTOFF Philadelphia is unique, in that case. Nationally, what is happening is less emphasis on social-studi...
PEGGY ALTOFF They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)
PEGGY LEE Through my skating, I've learned so much about myself. My sport taught me what I could do with my ta...
PEGGY FLEMING The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track o...
PEGGY NOONAN I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it ...
PEGGY FLEMING John Hancock owned one of the wharves. It needed repair. In this letter he instructs his agent in Pl...
PEGGY BAKER Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known o...
PEGGY NOONAN It's kind of like being a fireman, and I've done it myself, so I understand what they go through. It...
PEGGY TAPHORN At one point they had very elaborate plans. That's what the drawing shows. Those plans were cut back...
PEGGY BAKER When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicatin...
PEGGY RATHMANN I had become so insulated in my world as a mother that I didn't know how to pick up the phone an...
PEGGY LIPTON Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination opera...
PEGGY NOONAN I believe it is fair to say most Republicans did not think George W. Bush was motivated to run for t...
PEGGY NOONAN Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
PEGGY NOONAN Does he know in his gut that the existence of looting, chaos and disease in a great American city, o...
PEGGY NOONAN The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them...
PEGGY NOONAN Without substance, the speech will perish,
PEGGY NOONAN Let's cause some senators distress.
PEGGY NOONAN A great speech is literature.
PEGGY NOONAN It makes it nicer all around for the kids and the administrators to have families like that. It's a ...
PEGGY BAKER I talk a lot to Nova on the telephone. You can't be involved with people during such a traumatic tim...
PEGGY BAKER I send our soldiers (to the America Supports You Web site) all the time. They can go in, they can go...
PEGGY BAKER Imagine when Plymouth had a working waterfront with all the bustle and energy and stench that comes ...
PEGGY BAKER People see what's there and think that's what was always there. But it wasn't. Before 1921 it was ve...
PEGGY BAKER The pageant was mobbed. And it's a good thing there were tourists because everyone in town was in it...
PEGGY BAKER The Cole's Hill of today is a complete remake. It didn't have grass. It didn't have that shape. Ther...
PEGGY BAKER I just couldn't do it. I was too emotional. My daughter (Lisa Miller) was too upset, too.
PEGGY SMITH He was hoping the team would pull through and get a win for him. He was doing OK (afterward). We had...
PEGGY HINKEL In the case of Sudan, the Sudanese government's presence on the commission meant that African states...
PEGGY HICKS My heart goes out to Lindsay Lohan.
PEGGY LIPTON Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Ne...
PEGGY NOONAN There were just too many steps. And the $1.75 transaction fee was too much ? it was painful.
PEGGY BAKER Sandy sees subtle nuances, the tilt of the head, how an ear looks, he picks up the tiny details that...
PEGGY PROCTOR Right-wing influence on sex education has played an equal, if not greater role. Federally mandated a...
PEGGY ORENSTEIN You have to be totally paralyzed to be able to use this.
PEGGY CHUN Megan threw 110-11 which is a good start for her. Christina did a good job. We were fifth as a team ...
PEGGY COX Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don'...
PEGGY NOONAN If someone can use it, then why throw it away? I don't like to see anything thrown in the trash that...
PEGGY KEHOE Take a sheet and get it wet and lay it across you, then go lay by an open window. When the breeze bl...
PEGGY ANDREWS They'd never heard of the Terry Fox Run,
PEGGY BROWN People like a woman who drinks her scotch straight. People like a woman who serves milk and cookies....
PEGGY UPCHURCH The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so m...
PEGGY NOONAN A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, ...
PEGGY NOONAN The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happ...
PEGGY NOONAN where I was still told to my face that modern art can only be loved...by Jews.
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM If Venice sinks, the collection should be preserved somewhere in the vicinity of Venice.
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM I'm a big fan of naval instruments.
PEGGY BAKER I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was...
PEGGY LIPTON States are doing this for two reasons. They want to be ethical institutions, and they want the skept...
PEGGY KERNS Right now, we're at half that level.
PEGGY SIMPSON Right now, those people would have 20 years of experience and be stepping into management roles.
PEGGY ROBBINS We think we've got the right products, the right promotions, but like last year, we are still cautio...
PEGGY PALTER Careful, Sandi. You're about to let your bulldog mouth overload your bird-dog bite.
PEGGY WEBB Chicken pox is highly infectious and you're going to spread it before you know you have it.
PEGGY GRIGG Not good, definitely not good. We don't have fatalities in Plano that often, so when we do, it's not...
PEGGY HARRELL Students are really not aware of the consequences of blood alcohol concentration and what impacts it...
PEGGY BROWN We want to help people get grounded in things that they can do immediately to help bring about a bet...
PEGGY BROWN They guided us through the hoops and circles.
PEGGY BROWN Many of our products are targeted to people with dry skin, brittle hair or itchy scalps. That's very...
PEGGY BROWN We lived in Port Coquitlam and the kids went to the same school as Terry Fox,
PEGGY BROWN Petite doesn't necessarily mean small circumference-wise, but short.
PEGGY DUPRAS I had a cat I could not see,
Because it stayed in back of me.
It was a very loyal pet-
PEGGY RATHMANN She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless flooz...
PEGGY WEBB After all, he was human, in spite of rumors to the contrary.
PEGGY WEBB (I want him to be sentenced to) life in prison. I don't want the death penalty. I want him to live t...
PEGGY WHITE Taxes are usually permanent, but tax cuts aren't.
PEGGY VENABLE A contract portrait bronze commission takes roughly 12 to 18 months to complete.
PEGGY PROCTOR We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.
PEGGY HAYMES It just takes two or three pinches of bone powder to find molecular evidence. We have protein sequen...
PEGGY OSTROM We want them to learn simple things that are relaxing, like conscious breathing and guided imagery, ...
PEGGY BROWN How could he try to get Sandi to reveal her true colors when she was a rainbow?
PEGGY WEBB My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.
PEGGY FLEMING I really got into officiating to try and get things organized. I went to the state (officials) organ...
PEGGY CORRIGAN Our goal was to have them one-sided on a piece of paper so Mike could hand them out and soldiers cou...
PEGGY ESERKALN We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life...
PEGGY NOONAN A lot of people think they can't donate blood because they are on a particular medicine. That may no...
PEGGY SIMPSON We don't keep a lot of type B blood on the shelf.
PEGGY SIMPSON We have faithful donors in the Danville community.
PEGGY SIMPSON If they had a surgery scheduled that would need a lot of blood, they might have to check with us fir...
PEGGY SIMPSON It's been a perfect mentoring system and support back and forth.
PEGGY ROBBINS Years ago, we insisted on a 40-hour week, working 8 to 5. We've become much more flexible in terms o...
PEGGY ROBBINS When we made those decisions, we didn't know exactly what the economy was going to do, but it was ou...
PEGGY PALTER We're just being cautious. This is not a recall, but until we have more information, the responsible...
PEGGY PALTER The competition is tougher. We recognize that consumers spend the most in the store you go to first,...
PEGGY PALTER This is really the first major move that Lacy has made. It's really a starting point. He's been very...
PEGGY PALTER That's right. The other thing I found really amazing is one of the solutions is not to spend more ti...
PEGGY NORTHROP The new text substantially advances the discussion and gives a good basis to achieve a stronger huma...
PEGGY HICKS The possibility that a small number of states with deeply troubling human rights records could block...
PEGGY HICKS Human rights victims around the world have been anxiously watching this summit, and their focus will...
PEGGY HICKS The possibility that a small number of states with deeply troubling human rights records could block...
PEGGY HICKS Criticism of the traditional male role is often mistaken for criticism of men themselves. When this ...
PEGGY NATIELLO As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.
PEGGY FLEMING The scandal at the congressional level has received so much publicity, it does permeate down to the ...
PEGGY KERNS Local elected officials play critical roles in economic development and poverty reduction. You get e...
PEGGY BELTRONE I've never been to jail before. I was married to a lawyer for 31 years. I'm a peaceful person.
PEGGY SMITH You're wearing a lace thong?" Dolly clapped her hands. "That's absolutely perfect for romance.
PEGGY WEBB The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't ha...
PEGGY FLEMING I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't...
PEGGY LIPTON I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a bab...
PEGGY LEE Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love mu...
PEGGY LEE Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.
PEGGY LEE The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.
PEGGY MORIARTY I want to do 'The Graduate!' When Lorraine Bracco's finished, I'm up for it.
PEGGY LIPTON We feel strongly they do have the authority and responsibility to review textbooks.
PEGGY VENABLE That said, pointing out inaccurate or unrealistic portrayals of women to younger grade school childr...
PEGGY ORENSTEIN I didn't know how to smile for the paparazzi.
PEGGY LIPTON You're so arrogant, you're almost macho.
PEGGY WEBB Human beings are very complicated, and there are a lot of interesting barriers we set up (to justify...
PEGGY CONLON Some women who have short arms are 5 feet 6 but buy petites because they are more comfortable with t...
PEGGY DUPRAS It's an amazing piece of property. It's virtually unchanged in 200 years. For us to get this is just...
PEGGY ERICKSON Customers really shouldn't see a lot of changes. But I think the independence will eventually help u...
PEGGY FOWLER The fact they increased to 42 percent was a major step towards Wal-Mart's commitment to Seiyu and to...
PEGGY FURUSAKA We miss you, Charlie, and we love you; your boys will always remember.
PEGGY GARBARINI When it became a million-dollar prize, the ante went up in all kinds of ways ... It's a daunting day...
PEGGY KATALINICH I don't really think they are at risk kids, but you want to know what elements are operating in your...
PEGGY JOHNSON He's doing OK. I guess he's gotten over the worst part and accepts the fact that he's not going to b...
PEGGY HINKEL This event has become bigger and bigger every year.
PEGGY LASKOWSKI We felt doing a complete study of all our fields had advantages. We've been losing ground because of...
PEGGY LEWIS The kids had a lot of creative ideas. We will certainly take them into consideration.
PEGGY MCCARTHEY In our story, we talk about the fact that a lot of doctors don't have the training or time to talk t...
PEGGY NORTHROP This was the only way we could find, perhaps, to slow them down.
PEGGY PAGE That part is behind us. I think I'm going to need help. My nerves are really bad.
PEGGY SMITH They ought to go away for a long time, if not for life.
PEGGY WARNER We don't see that behavior anymore. Most people think of autism like 'Rain Man' or walking around fl...
PEGGY WEST We've faced one competitor after another over the years. We've been doing this for 10 years. We do i...
PEGGY WHITE That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of -- absolutely has no basis in fact.
PEGGY WILSON she said. ''But we also need to see more of other cultures.
PEGGY CHARREN Transportation is an unbelievably difficult problem for most of our neighbors.
PEGGY CAMPBELL That's how it's recorded, but that's not what I was told. We were told it was suspected that it came...
PEGGY BURYJ Thanks for being so caring and generous. I am so blessed to be able to live a full life.
PEGGY CHUN George W. Bush is a big spender. He has never vetoed a spending Bill. When Congress serves up a big ...
PEGGY NOONAN It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.
PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE Elle, you have a pure heart. You possess love and compassion for your friends and for people you hav...
PEGGY M. MCALOON Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been writ...
PEGGY TONEY HORTON Life is like music on a scale, moving up and down. When your life is over, you have written your son...
PEGGY TONEY HORTON As the old year retires and a new one is born, we commit into the hands of our Creator the happening...
PEGGY TONEY HORTON Each New Year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with ...
PEGGY TONEY HORTON Happiness is a butterfly that often hovers just beyond your grasp,then suddenly alights on your shou...
PEGGY TONEY HORTON The best thing I ever did was the worst thing I never did.
PEGGY MARIE ATATISE ...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged...
PEGGY KOPMAN-OWENS I have learned that I must push the pause button occasionally and retreat into that private place in...
PEGGY TONEY HORTON At Christmastime, whenever I feel overwhelmed and a little out of sorts, all I have to do is think o...
PEGGY TONEY HORTON When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become.
PEGGY TONEY HORTON When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Pegg...
PEGGY TONEY HORTON I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperie...
PEGGY RANDALL-MARTIN Maybe dream chasing is like climbing a mountain. You know, finding the trail, stepping onto it. At f...
PEGGY MOREHOUSE STRACK I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails mean...
VINCENT NICHOLS Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all ac...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round an...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO