Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Victor Hugo

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

Source Unknown

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

Herbie Hancock

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

Felix Alba-Juez

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.

David Cameron

It was so cold I almost got married.

Shelley Winters

To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love.

Dejan Stojanovic

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

Marilyn Monroe

God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.

Julian of Norwich

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

Junius, letter to London Publick

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde