Received Quotes

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
Robert Grosseteste

Good, Honest, Faithful

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
Patty Duke

Women, Rights, Treasure

I worked very hard on me and David's record and I'm extremely proud of the record, as most people are who were involved with it. And, it's been wonderfully received by people who like our kind of music, they think it's something special, and so do I.
Graham Nash

Music, Hard, Special

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.
Anne Campbell

Campaign, Response, Doorstep

Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.
John Otway

Good, Live, Career

I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.
Laurieann Gibson

Best, Eyes, Off

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.
Martin Amis

Time, Second, Writer

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.
Brett Ratner

Love, Mom, Father

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God, Call, Bear

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.
Rudolf Arnheim

Give, Country, Promise

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
Caleb Cushing

Said, Matter, House

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
Anne Sullivan

Experience, Real, Advice

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
Kate Smith

God, Before, America

Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
Abbas Kiarostami

Wonder, Audience, Films

If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.
Trevor Nunn

Whatever, Group, Criticism

I'm a big fan of 'Glee.' I think it's really smart. And I think it's well-timed. But you can't not be surprised at the reception this show's received. It's really something else.
Cory Monteith

Smart, Big, Else

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
Marilyn Hacker

Good, Bad, Sometimes

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
Edward Sapir

Resentment, Likely, Gifts

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
Elizabeth McGovern

Wisdom, Someone, Career

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
M. Night Shyamalan

Bad, Sense, Attention

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
John Sexton

Work, Him, Point

I can only give away the love that I have received.
John Shelby Spong

Love, Give, Away

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.
John Grierson

Education, Men, Thinking

My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!
Lucy Hale

Christmas, Around, Wanted

The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid.
Ismail Haniyeh

Living, Free, Stop

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
David Brainerd

Faith, Practice, Among

Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.
Zebulon Pike

Said, Place, United

I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.
Ryan White

School, Around, Wanted

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.
Paul Robeson

Peace, Sports, Struggle

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.
Michael K. Simpson

Politics, Today, Involved

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