The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Quote by Herbert Hoover
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The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
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Herbert Hoover Quotes
- The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
- Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
- Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
- It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
- When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
- Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
- About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
- New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
- There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
- Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.