Quotes by American Authors - Page 61

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Will Rogers
If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?
Calvin Trillin
Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
Arthur Schlesinger
What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
Will Henry
Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances a hundred things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work and love - these are the basics waking life is a dream controlled.
George Santayana
Madness is part of all of us all the time and it comes and goes waxes and wanes.
Otto Friedrich
When we remember that we are all mad the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Arthur Miller
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Day of the Lord as all our days should be!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The grandeur that was Rome.
Edgar Allan Poe
Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm
If you would be loved love and be lovable.
Benjamin Franklin
A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.
Dr. Joseph Collins
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
Emily Post
Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.
Henry S. Haskins
Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.
Ben Johnson
Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.
Cicely Tyson
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
William James
Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.
Mary Parker Follett
There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
Benjamin Franklin
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
Agnes Meyer
Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.
Alice Walker
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it think some thoughts better than we think catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
Maria Mitchell
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
Henry Miller
Example has more followers than reason.
Christian Bovee
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn Coats
Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
Bernard Malamud
Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.
Ben Johnson
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Mark Twain
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
Charles H. Fowler
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
Examine the personality of the mother who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.
Beata Rank
If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
Tyron Edwards
I believe in recovery and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
Ann Richards
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Dare to be naive.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Into the darkness they go the wise and the lovely.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
I love the challenge.
Nancy Lopez
We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.
Maria Irene Fornes
You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.
Debbi Fields
I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life-even when it's a kick in the teeth.
Polly Adler
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain
Creativity is inventing experimenting growing taking risks breaking rules making mistakes and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Muriel Strode
There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead where there were no paths.
Dorothy Parker
We owe something to extravagance for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
All serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty