"I trust and believe that this College, this……" — Winston Churchill
"I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'"
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Winston Churchill
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1,057 Quotes by Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill has 1,057 quotes on this site.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the…
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and…
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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Never, never, never give up.
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of…
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence…
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird…
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The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat…
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Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn.
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What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if…
— Philip Roth
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If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking.…
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let…
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Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back…
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