Grandma Moses quote: "I don't advise any one to take it up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent, and are crippled so as to deprive them of physical labor."

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
GRANDMA MOSES

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then t...
GRANDMA MOSES

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.
GRANDMA MOSES

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the...
GRANDMA MOSES

And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
GRANDMA MOSES

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
GRANDMA MOSES

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the tre...
GRANDMA MOSES

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday . . . I look back on my...
GRANDMA MOSES

I look back on my life a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
GRANDMA MOSES

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
GRANDMA MOSES

What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward; one is of today, th...
GRANDMA MOSES

Now that I am ninety-five years old, looking back over the years, I have seen many changes taking pl...
GRANDMA MOSES

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
GRANDMA MOSES

. . . daydreams, as it were . . . I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows a...
GRANDMA MOSES

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday . . . I look back on my...
GRANDMA MOSES

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
GRANDMA MOSES

Now that I am ninety-five years old, looking back over the years, I have seen many changes taking pl...
GRANDMA MOSES

And life is what we make it.
Always has been, always will be.
GRANDMA MOSES

Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
MOSES

No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't s...
MOSES

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and ...
MOSES

I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.
MOSES

The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet like me from among your own people. Listen carefully to ev...
MOSES

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might....
MOSES

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
MOSES

I am not eloquent.
MOSES

Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon ...
MOSES

Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let...
MOSES

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.
GRANDMA AXIOM

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of ...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
MOSES HADAS

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
ROBERT MOSES

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
MOSES HADAS

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in trainin...
EDWIN MOSES

I'll always be number 1 to myself.
MOSES MALONE

The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthri...
EDWIN MOSES

I'm a big-guy guy. I look at guys like Shaq, Ben Wallace, guys who play inside and play tough. I...
MOSES MALONE

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a ...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; ...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.
EDWIN MOSES

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
MOSES HADAS

This book fills a much-needed gap.
MOSES HADAS

I have read your book and much like it.
MOSES HADAS

Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by sere...
MOSES HASID

This book fills a much needed gap.
MOSES HADAS

The likelihood that an investor might be able to randomly pick the next Picasso -- that's a lot like...
MICHAEL MOSES

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as the...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

He was a proud guy, and he worked really hard. He had a passion for this business.
MICHAEL MOSES

When one adds art, one can reduce the overall risk to a portfolio by 10 percent to 20 percent.
MICHAEL MOSES

He's way sexier now. He melts your pantyhose. I could listen to him sing the alphabet.
BARBARA MOSES

Everyone is asking themselves different questions, so there are some underlying themes related to wh...
BARBARA MOSES

If you allow staff to own a project, you must trust in their capacity and avoid micromanagement, ......
BARBARA MOSES

In TempWorld there is no tolerance for error, no protection for a job less well done, ... Social Dar...
BARBARA MOSES

If one word can be used to characterize the new career, it is self-reliance , ... That means you bel...
BARBARA MOSES

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that compe...
EDWIN MOSES

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

My staff would be those who have been dedicated in the past.
ANTONIO MOSES

If you're dedicated to another organization, you could be dedicated to the Nubian .
ANTONIO MOSES

I have a plan not just to start it back where it was [in the spring], but to take it to the next lev...
ANTONIO MOSES

All of a sudden there was noise and wind.
MOSES KNIGHT

My only concern was winning ball games.
MOSES MALONE

The quiet guys are always the ones that have the surprises up their sleeve. I was surprised he wante...
MOSES MALONE

But it didn't condense, it just made the fonts a little bit...smawer.
TOM MOSES

Overall, I'm quite happy with the performances.
MOSES DOUGLAS

I told him I wanted a large front porch where I could drink coffee and play music. Mary wanted a scr...
CLIFF MOSES

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architect...
ROBERT MOSES

Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake
ROBERT MOSES

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
ROBERT MOSES

This gave the holder an annualized return of 17.1 percent. A randomly selected subset of S&P 500 sto...
MICHAEL MOSES

I didn't know who David Pollack was when I got here, but it didn't take long to learn that he was so...
QUENTIN MOSES

We have done our utmost to devise a structure that is fair to all our customers. But we recognize th...
TOM MOSES

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
ROBERT MOSES

It's more of the scare tactics, negative attacks that we've become accustomed to from the Clinton ca...
RYAN MOSES

Anyone with a GIA Diamond Grading Report or Diamond Dossier can verify the accuracy of their report ...
TOM MOSES

He continued to be and infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy
ROBERT MOSES

It's something that's proven very successful to do.
CHRISTINE MOSES

This strike is about wages and some other aspects of being a human being.
MOSES MEMELA

I overcame size with mechanics.
EDWIN MOSES

This apartment would be described as unlivable -- trash, alcohol, plugged-in hot plate they could to...
DONNY MOSES

At this point, it's under investigation by internal affairs.
DONNY MOSES

I think with this whole influx into immediacy -- everyone is short term in their outlook. I made a t...
EDWIN MOSES

A lot of the guys now are 400/200 type of runners. I don't think, being a 400-meter runner, you can...
EDWIN MOSES

If I'm able to run 49 seconds, I'll be really blessed. 'Cause it is really hard on the body. I'm not...
EDWIN MOSES

In America we know the kids are not as physically challenged as they could be and also in terms of e...
EDWIN MOSES

I don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory
EDWIN MOSES

It drains you on the turns.
EDWIN MOSES

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than oth...
EDWIN MOSES

Maybe he could have just been plain tired, burned out. Lane 1 will do that to you.
EDWIN MOSES

No one asked an artist who was great in his 20s and 30s why he was still painting in his 40s and 50s...
EDWIN MOSES

A lot of the guys now are 400/200 type of runners. I don't think, being a 400-meter runner, you can...
EDWIN MOSES

Without a doubt, I would have [won], short of falling or being disqualified or something like that. ...
EDWIN MOSES

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.
ROBERT MOSES

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which ...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around c...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

On the commercial side, clearly all of the three major types of companies -- traditional pharmaceuti...
HAMILTON MOSES

Stretching was a major part of my preparation.
EDWIN MOSES

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
MOSES HADAS

I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.
EDWIN MOSES

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfacti...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

It holds 2,000 gallons of water. A 2-inch rain will fill it.
CLIFF MOSES

The one thing about the open concept is that there's only one wall. We wanted to have an entertainme...
CLIFF MOSES

We saw his name on a house we liked. We liked that he seemed to know a lot about native plants, but ...
CLIFF MOSES

The thing that originally attracted us to this development was the park on the Guadalupe River. It's...
CLIFF MOSES

[Still,] the doubling over a decade of total spending by U.S. public and private research sponsors i...
HAMILTON MOSES

There aren't a lot of diseases where we can point to and say we have an answer today that we didn't ...
HAMILTON MOSES

We've seen growth and a real doubling of funding in all sectors. The proportions are really unchange...
HAMILTON MOSES

For all sponsors, the challenge is patience. Biomedical research is an inherently high risk and leng...
HAMILTON MOSES

It raises the question ... are we getting our money's worth? Are we capturing the full value of that...
HAMILTON MOSES

[Part of this enthusiasm has stemmed from recent scientific advances, especially the completion of t...
HAMILTON MOSES

We were surprised that the increase has been as steady over the decade and as large as it has been.
HAMILTON MOSES

If we're soon going to be spending $100 billion a year, we'd better have treatments that work over a...
HAMILTON MOSES

This is outrageous. We are hurt. As soon as the students calm down, they lose another student. We ju...
EARLINE MOSES

The children at the party were all nice children.
EARLINE MOSES

We are losing are children. The killing just has to stop. We just buried a child, and then this one.
EARLINE MOSES

Alaska is just on fire. This is one of the biggest booking years for Alaska. Every year they say tha...
HOWARD MOSES

I think it really indicates how important it is that people pay attention to the lifeboat drill. Thi...
HOWARD MOSES

Of course a fire on any ship and especially a cruise ship is a very scary proposition. The cruise li...
HOWARD MOSES

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
EDWIN MOSES

In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics.
EDWIN MOSES

I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.
EDWIN MOSES

I always got my work done before playing.
EDWIN MOSES

My father was an all-American football player.
EDWIN MOSES

I was always more of an academic than a jock.
EDWIN MOSES

Because of that you have to pay seven cents-a-gallon more than you would have otherwise. Next week i...
MARK MOSES

Wow! They're sure going to have to do a lot of editing before those Chinese government censors see i...
MARK MOSES

Everyone is always looking to find quality people to join the organizations, to keep the traditions ...
LARRY MOSES

I say this without hesitation: They are the best step team in the world.
LARRY MOSES

Most of them had never been exposed to stepping before.
LARRY MOSES

We juggle our schedules to make it happen. ... It's a full-time passion, but it's a part-time job.
LARRY MOSES

I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.
EDWIN MOSES

The dads do more than I do. They are the ones that do the driving and take their kids all over.
KIRBY MOSES

He just dominated everybody he wrestled.
KIRBY MOSES

Our kids seemed to lose their focus against Osage. We wrestled better earlier than we did later.
KIRBY MOSES

He just wrestled solid. It was basic stuff, nothing really fancy.
KIRBY MOSES

We lost some tough matches in the first round. We lost a lot of close matches but we won some close ...
KIRBY MOSES

Alex was seeded third and he performed really well against his opponents. Both Trevor and Alex were ...
KIRBY MOSES

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know ...
KIRBY MOSES

Those who can, build,
ROBERT MOSES

It's hard to put an image that you see with actual real-life on the field. We tried to be prepared b...
QUENTIN MOSES

We had never beaten First Flight before we took them down there, 5-4, (earlier this season) and it c...
MOSES DOUGLAS

They closed out First Flight and it wasn't a fluke. They have the right attitude. They are willing t...
MOSES DOUGLAS

I'm quite convinced that they will all be out (to strike).
MOSES MEMELA

Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to ...
MOSES R. KAUFMAN

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
MOSES IBN EZRA

The happiest moment in a man's life is his weakest moment.
MOSES WANJALA WANYONYI

Neither any one in this world is born as our friend nor born as our enemy.
Our behavior, attitu...
MOSES TIKO LUNGU

I look back on my life like a good day's work; it was done and I am satisfied with it
ANNA MARY ROBERTSON MOSES

Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.
ANNA MARY ROBERTSON MOSES

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it [but] people would be better off buyin' chickens...
ANNA MARY ROBERTSON MOSES

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the...
ANNA MARY ROBERTSON MOSES

I don't advise any one to take it up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent, and are crippled so as to deprive them of physical labor.

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I don't advise any one to take it up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent, and are crippled so as to deprive them of physical labor.

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