Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields. "

Related Quotes:

" Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes. "

Shirley Temple

Eyes

Said

" Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention. "

" I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl. "

" I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work. "

" I wish my name was Cobb. Then they would send over a Cobb salad. "

" I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. "

" I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. "

" Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child. "

" I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service. "

" If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working. "

" Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle. "

" There's nothing like real love. Nothing. "

Shirley Temple

Nothing

Real

" At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer themselves up. They fell in love with a dog and a little girl. It won't happen again. "

" Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well. "

Shirley Temple

Stories

Newspaper

" I ran for Congress, just once. "

" When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too. "

" My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover. "

" I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act. "

" By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention. "

" I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry. "

" Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe. "

Shirley Temple

World

Real

" Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank. "

" I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection. "

Shirley Temple

Children

Loved

" We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought. "

" Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N. "

" When I saw work shoes, I would know that that person worked. I was very worried about people with shiny, pointed shoes as a child. "

" When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since. "

" I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world. "

" I've always been bossy. "

" I hate that song 'Mr. Bojangles.' It drives me up the wall, since it's not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail. "