In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor; The Chichesters… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. — Camille Claudel Copy Share Image
Hard floorings such as marble, wood, terrazzo and linoleum, have become fashionable of late, but I believe they create a characterless "international"… — George Pendle Copy Share Image
I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who… — Yanni Copy Share Image
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair:… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them. — Martial Copy Share Image
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
