Shirley Temple's Quotes

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.

Good luck needs no explanation.

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.

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

I ran for Congress, just once.

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

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

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.