“Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “We are always getting ready to live, but never living.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And that was it: the profound pearls of wisdom from the lips of Douglas Emerson III.” — Jaime Reed Copy Share Image
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. — David Markson Copy Share Image
When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay. — Joanna Going Copy Share Image
“It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places.” — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson.” — Lorenz Font Copy Share Image
The only way to have a friend is to be one. --Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
“Emerson, you just shared your deepest secret with me. I value that. Don't make light of it." If he wasn't already holding… — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
There was a sketch group at Emerson, and if you could believe it, we were the cool kids. That's how Emerson rolls.… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
“Emerson loved the good and his life was a symphony of peace and harmony, Carlyle hated the bad, and his life was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The words of Ralph Waldo Emerson came back to me: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people… — Nancy Many Copy Share Image
“Mr. Emerson watched, almost breathless, as she swirled the wine in her glass expertly, then lifted it so that she could examine… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“The Telescope, the Flaxions, the inventions of Logarithms and the frenzy of multiplication, often for its own sake, that follow'd have for… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“{ McCabe on the influential scientist Luther Burbank } His magnificent work, which added an incalculable sum to the wealth of America… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
“I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Well,' I said. 'I could strip off my clothes and reveal to you that under my jeans and sweatshirt I'm actually wearing… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll 's,… — Moncure Daniel Conway Copy Share Image
“How come no one understood me, and more importantly, how come I was starting to not understand myself?” — Kimberly Lauren Copy Share Image
Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (attrib.)” — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson” — Improve Life Books Copy Share Image
“Here’s to losing Emerson, and finding Em again!” I raised the shot glass in the air.” — Kimberly Lauren Copy Share Image
“You know, Scarlett, Rhett didn't give a damn, and frankly, I don't either. - Emerson” — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
“Instead, Emerson came to accept that when someone dies, things that belong to you disappear, too.” — Noel Alumit Copy Share Image
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit. — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
“He is very much in love with Liz Emerson,and it seems that she will never know.” — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
