education quotes by famous people
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ~Harper Lee
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball. ~Bill Veeck, 1976
The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity. ~John Addington Symonds
There is nothing more dangerous than history used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history used as a tool is no longer history. ~Marcel Trudel
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. ~Russell Lynes
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? ~Ronald Reagan
Prayer draws us near to our own souls. ~Herman Melville, Mardi and A Voyage Thither, 1849
What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of citizenship. This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny. ~Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, 2009 Jan 20, Washington, D.C.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ~Benjamin Disraeli
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. ~Henry Ward Beecher
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. ~Andy Rooney
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf
Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off. ~Philip Larkin
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. ~Erica Jong
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. ~Rachel Carson
We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
