After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
We called [my son] Gary "Little Herschel" when he was in middle school - but then he didn't grow any taller. He… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Today the darkness begins to grow shorter and the light to lengthen, as the hours of night become fewer… Realize that the… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people... we want our cattle to get fat on our… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower; when they… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up… — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
Sure thou did'st nourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It all comes down to this: If you want one year of happiness, grow grain If you want 10 years of happiness,… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business,… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions.… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of… — Bill Reid Copy Share Image
I don't view myself from the past present or future tense i like to think of the world from my own personal… — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That's a lot of words about the weather, but in Canberra you can't help but be aware of the seasons, and there… — Judy Horacek Copy Share Image
Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives,… — Homer Copy Share Image
Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how greatly you've been hurt or how much you're hurting, it's what you do with the pain that counts.… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow… — James Spader Copy Share Image
Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So… — Wayne Huizenga Copy Share Image
I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow,… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image