A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.

Thomas Jefferson

Quote Topics

Amusement Become Drawing Engaging Innocent Instructor Mother Neglected Often Qualification Useful

Quote Author

Thomas Jefferson
American - President
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn things to a high degree of detail. That is not an ideological position I hold on drawing but is rather an expression of my desire to design and by extension to build. This has often been mistaken as a fetish I have for drawing: of drawing for drawing’s sake, for the love of drawing. Never. Never. Yes, I love making a beautiful, well-crafted drawing, but I love it only because of the amount of information a precise drawing provides

Neil Denari

Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.

Thomas Jefferson

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

Camille Pissarro

Encourage innocent amusement.

Joseph Addison

Men who as boys felt neglected by their dads often remain distant from their children. The sins of fathers are passed on to children, often through the dynamic of self-protection. It hurts to be neglected, and it creates questions about our value to others. So to avoid feeling the sting of further rejection, we refuse to give that part of ourselves we fear might once again be received with indifference.

Larry Crabb

As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist.

Michael Graves

I am a voice for innocent animals who are being neglected and dumped by the millions at shelters.

Joanna Krupa

I feel that women have been neglected, unnecessarily neglected and mistreated personally by the fashion industry and shapewear in that entire category was a definite place that we were neglected.

Sara Blakely

For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.

Chuck Palahniuk

People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.

Hugo Hamilton

My mother took me to every kind of dance instructor.

Julie Newmar

My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism.

Vinessa Shaw

Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.

George Washington

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

Morris Gleitzman

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Essentially, you become a top tweet because so many people are engaging with that tweet. They're either retweeting it, or they're favoriting it; they're doing one of many things to indicate to us that that tweet is interesting and engaging to users.

Biz Stone

A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors