Academy Quote by James Russell Lowell Download Open image “That best academy, a mother's knee.” — James Russell Lowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Academy Knees Mom Mother Mothers day Parenting
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have. — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image