Period Quotes
Text Quotes
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs (Period Quotes)
Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched (Period Quotes)
It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease (Period Quotes)
The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy (Period Quotes)
Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move (Period Quotes)
It’s hard to find actors that don’t feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece (Period Quotes)
The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy (Period Quotes)
There was the period where I wanted to be a therapist, if the acting thing didn’t work. That was pretty much it. I don’t know why. I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems (Period Quotes)
Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time (Period Quotes)
The honeymoon is the only period when a woman isn’t trying to reform her husband (Period Quotes)
There’s no religious test under the constitution. That’s what it says. Period (Period Quotes)
I’m just about equality, period. It’s not like, I’m a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody (Period Quotes)
American audiences love period pieces. America doesn’t have a lot of old things. It’s a new country so I think we’re a little bit fascinated by that (Period Quotes)
Falconer’s grasp of period and places is almost flawless... He’s my kind of writer (Period Quotes)
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always (Period Quotes)
A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political, legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge (Period Quotes)
In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all (Period Quotes)
Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period (Period Quotes)
I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion (Period Quotes)
Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it’s difficult to see new projects to fruition (Period Quotes)
The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth (Period Quotes)
A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing (Period Quotes)
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list (Period Quotes)
Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns (Period Quotes)
We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid (Period Quotes)
I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends (Period Quotes)
We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority (Period Quotes)
I’ve seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces (Period Quotes)
I think we are trying to improve for next week. Period. I do not think anybody is thinking about anything else (Period Quotes)
When you’re making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It’s not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along (Period Quotes)