The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Though there was no sound, there was a change. The atmosphere, which had gone tense at my accusation, relaxed. I wondered how… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“My tea has overbrewed: it is bitter, but still drinkable. I turn on the television and return to the present. Four plump… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost...… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy…A boy is truth with… — Alan Beck Copy Share Image
Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
My dear creature, I have done with all debate. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to… — S. Parkes Cadman Copy Share Image
My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Without holiness on earth we shall never be prepared to enjoy heaven. Heaven is a holy place. The Lord of heaven is… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands… — Edward Burns Copy Share Image
Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat.… — Marilyn Copy Share Image
