I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smit...
NATALIE BABBITT My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in cl...
NATALIE BABBITT I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
NATALIE BABBITT I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a ver...
NATALIE BABBITT The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because ...
NATALIE BABBITT I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school a...
NATALIE BABBITT Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next...
NATALIE BABBITT I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all ...
NATALIE BABBITT I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fair...
NATALIE BABBITT My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if ...
NATALIE BABBITT We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
NATALIE BABBITT Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
NATALIE BABBITT I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was...
NATALIE BABBITT The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the hi...
NATALIE BABBITT Do not fear death... only the unlived life.
You don't have to live forever;
You just have to...
NATALIE BABBITT Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to liv...
NATALIE BABBITT Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just hav...
NATALIE BABBITT The way I see it," Miles went on, "it's no good hiding yourself away, like Pa and lots of other peop...
NATALIE BABBITT Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
NATALIE BABBITT You really have to love words if you’re going to be a writer, because as a writer, you certainly s...
NATALIE BABBITT The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the hi...
NATALIE BABBITT The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the hi...
NATALIE BABBITT Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of...
NATALIE BABBITT It goes on,” Tuck repeated, “to the ocean. But this rowboat now, it’s stuck. If we didn’t mo...
NATALIE BABBITT Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing ...
NATALIE BABBITT Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, an...
NATALIE BABBITT I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.
NATALIE BABBITT Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discover...
NATALIE BABBITT I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know, but something interesting - something that's all mine. S...
NATALIE BABBITT For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music ca...
NATALIE BABBITT ...with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.
NATALIE BABBITT No connection, you would agree. But things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the ce...
NATALIE BABBITT Well, thought Winnie, crossing her arms on the windowsill, she was different. Things had happ...
NATALIE BABBITT But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you lik...
NATALIE BABBITT The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? ...
NATALIE BABBITT How old are you, anyway?' she asked, squinting at him.
There was a pause. At last he said, 'Why...
NATALIE BABBITT And suddenly, she longed for a thunderstorm.
NATALIE BABBITT For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough....
NATALIE BABBITT The first week of August hangs at the very top of the summer, the top of the live-long year, like th...
NATALIE BABBITT You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just ...
NATALIE BABBITT dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
NATALIE BABBITT Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, an...
NATALIE BABBITT Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.
NATALIE BABBITT Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple.
NATALIE BABBITT The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
IRVING BABBITT Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
IRVING BABBITT The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself...
IRVING BABBITT To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficul...
IRVING BABBITT The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
IRVING BABBITT If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing ...
IRVING BABBITT The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership bec...
IRVING BABBITT Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path ...
IRVING BABBITT We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to ge...
IRVING BABBITT According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxi...
IRVING BABBITT The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plur...
IRVING BABBITT Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
IRVING BABBITT Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absen...
IRVING BABBITT The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once...
IRVING BABBITT We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favo...
IRVING BABBITT We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation....
BRUCE BABBITT A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve...
IRVING BABBITT Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowst...
BRUCE BABBITT The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increa...
IRVING BABBITT Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished b...
IRVING BABBITT The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its eart...
IRVING BABBITT Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.
BRUCE BABBITT Every successful prescribed fire is a blow for safety in surrounding communities and for forest heal...
BRUCE BABBITT In recent years the Forest Service and land management agencies have been burning about 2 to 2 1/2 m...
BRUCE BABBITT I think what he will be remembered for most in history is the way he connected with regular people a...
BRUCE BABBITT We've got to do something to make these folks whole,
BRUCE BABBITT The study process was able to point us toward a balance, based on good science and broad consultatio...
BRUCE BABBITT With those mistakes embedded in it, the process began with the agency and participants behind the cu...
BRUCE BABBITT Mistakes began with the preparation of the prescribed fire plan, ... Had those calculations been pro...
BRUCE BABBITT This is sacred ground, ... Americans come here to learn of their past . . . their heritage. It is ou...
BRUCE BABBITT It's a very tough situation, ... We've got two, three more weeks, maybe a month of fire season, and ...
BRUCE BABBITT The proposed state non-game wildlife grants mark a real first in national conservation history, ... ...
BRUCE BABBITT I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.
BRUCE BABBITT The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world...
IRVING BABBITT Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a con...
IRVING BABBITT To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us cont...
IRVING BABBITT A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feeling...
IRVING BABBITT For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is u...
IRVING BABBITT No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pl...
BRUCE BABBITT Maybe the judgment of whether something is art or not should come from the viewer and not the doer.
ALAN BABBITT If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is ...
IRVING BABBITT A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make hi...
IRVING BABBITT within the next several days -- hopefully during the coming week.
BRUCE BABBITT Mistakes were made, ... You don't prosecute people for making mistakes.
BRUCE BABBITT Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau has gone to the Silent World this Wednesday, June 25, 1997
BRUCE BABBITT Stewart Udall, more than any other single person, was responsible for reviving the national commitme...
BRUCE BABBITT You fought the good fight. You were in it right up to the beginning.
BRUCE BABBITT change the entire culture of prescribed fire and to make sure that it doesn't happen again.
BRUCE BABBITT Campaign contributions should have nothing to do with a decision like this and they didn't. A person...
BRUCE BABBITT Barry Goldwater and the Grand Canyon stand together; both unique, both monumental, both among the ve...
BRUCE BABBITT If that's not a national problem, what is? ... And all we get from our national leaders is silence a...
BRUCE BABBITT I'm a student of conservation history and what I see are cycles, ... The trend over time has been a ...
BRUCE BABBITT In the spirit of the Christmas season I'm delivering a gift to the mining industry,
BRUCE BABBITT the tens of millions of dollars.
BRUCE BABBITT Had those calculations been properly done there would have been a larger background personnel and su...
BRUCE BABBITT This is not about turning people away from the park, ... The problem is not that there's too many pe...
BRUCE BABBITT You can't spawn your way over a concrete dam,
BRUCE BABBITT I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by...
MILTON BABBITT There has always been opposition to these types of things. When Theodore Roosevelt declared the Gran...
BRUCE BABBITT we're pushing 5 million acres.
BRUCE BABBITT It's integrated marketing. We have a market that is very specific, and we do everything we can to su...
BOB BABBITT You learn right away what you do well, and what you don't.
BOB BABBITT A lot of people are just getting into the fitness thing. And this is where it starts, events like Mu...
BOB BABBITT We wanted to be part of the fitness community, not just a magazine that covers it. I think we've bee...
BOB BABBITT We went to Nike, which knew us from the other magazine, and Nike agreed to buy the back cover of our...
BOB BABBITT Cities in the Wilderness.
BRUCE BABBITT The entitlement for more than 100 years has been rock-bottom grazing fees,
BRUCE BABBITT This process has gone from distasteful to obscene,
BRUCE BABBITT A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, ha...
IRVING BABBITT I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the ...
BRUCE BABBITT What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy an...
BRUCE BABBITT Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that th...
BRUCE BABBITT We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unem...
BRUCE BABBITT Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know....
BRUCE BABBITT This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be t...
BRUCE BABBITT There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut ...
BRUCE BABBITT What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go...
BRUCE BABBITT Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think on...
BRUCE BABBITT Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to con...
BRUCE BABBITT We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destructio...
BRUCE BABBITT The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.
BRUCE BABBITT Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really bel...
BRUCE BABBITT Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in C...
BRUCE BABBITT I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for gene...
BRUCE BABBITT I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I...
BRUCE BABBITT I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issu...
BRUCE BABBITT We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him s...
BRUCE BABBITT They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then ...
BRUCE BABBITT It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
BRUCE BABBITT I'm just hoping to make myself better and work on some things. This will give me a chance to do that...
LUKE BABBITT It should be a lot of fun. I've never been out of the country before. It's just a great honor to be ...
LUKE BABBITT Sorry I didn't give a better showing. I didn't do anything well tonight. I didn't shoot well, I didn...
LUKE BABBITT Some nights the shots just don't fall. When that happens you just have to play good defense and kind...
LUKE BABBITT For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting ...
NATALIE DORMER Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason...
NATALIE WOOD Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignoran...
NATALIE GOLDBERG There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what the...
NATALIE PORTMAN Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with cu...
NATALIE MASSENET I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.
NATALIE ZEA I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the hu...
NATALIE ZEA I'm drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It's human emotion. It's much more fun ...
NATALIE ZEA As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's goin...
NATALIE ZEA I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, ...
NATALIE ZEA I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple...
NATALIE ZEA I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds suc...
NATALIE ZEA I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting...
NATALIE ZEA I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the...
NATALIE ZEA I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
NATALIE ZEA I'm at my best when I'm working. I just recently learned how to find balance and deal with d...
NATALIE ZEA I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what...
NATALIE ZEA I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like,...
NATALIE ZEA When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was t...
NATALIE ZEA I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped dra...
NATALIE ZEA I've actually done a lot of comedy.
NATALIE ZEA I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, i...
NATALIE ZEA The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categ...
NATALIE ZEA There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can'...
NATALIE ZEA Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to see...
NATALIE ZEA My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relation...
NATALIE ZEA I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even ...
NATALIE ZEA I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come b...
NATALIE ZEA There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I...
NATALIE ZEA When I get married it will be for keeps.
NATALIE WOOD A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
NATALIE WOOD I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish an...
NATALIE WOOD I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
NATALIE WOOD Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting marri...
NATALIE WOOD I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
NATALIE WOOD There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
NATALIE WOOD Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human ...
NATALIE WOOD For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life r...
NATALIE WOOD I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, ...
NATALIE WOOD I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
NATALIE WOOD I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
NATALIE WOOD The constant attention is what is so difficult.
NATALIE WOOD If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
NATALIE WOOD My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
NATALIE WOOD I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie t...
NATALIE WOOD I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
NATALIE WOOD I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
NATALIE WOOD My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the tr...
NATALIE WOOD Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
NATALIE WOOD Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
NATALIE WOOD The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
NATALIE WOOD I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
NATALIE WOOD We were descended from royalty.
NATALIE WOOD Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.
NATALIE PORTMAN Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're ...
NATALIE PORTMAN I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confide...
NATALIE PORTMAN I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like ...
NATALIE PORTMAN I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous...
NATALIE PORTMAN Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work ...
NATALIE PORTMAN Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
NATALIE PORTMAN When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want ...
NATALIE PORTMAN My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were de...
NATALIE PORTMAN I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people...
NATALIE PORTMAN