We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust. — Matthias B. Tallmadge Copy Share Image
Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children. — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while,… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to… — Rahul Gandhi Copy Share Image
New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries — Robert Muldoon Copy Share Image
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed. — Mary Louisa Molesworth Copy Share Image
At the premiere of Hairspray on Broadway, Harvey Fierstein's mom said to my mom, "Didn't we raise great sons?" and my mother… — John Waters Copy Share Image
It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption — C. West Churchman Copy Share Image
The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above. — Plato Copy Share Image
While we fight poverty in the Gulf, we also have to fight poverty across America. We should begin by returning to a… — John Edward Copy Share Image
The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I'm a huge advocate of prayer. I've been praying since I was fifteen years old and the doctor told me I was… — Cathy Hughes Copy Share Image
