I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

John Updike

From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

In the distant past, Muslim doctors advised nervous people to look up at the sky. Forget the tight earth. Imagine that the sky, all of it, belonged to them alone. Crescent, low moon, more stars than the eyes looking up at them. But the sky was free, without any price, no one I knew spoke of it, no one competed for it. Instead, one by one those who could afford it began to sleep indoors in cool air-conditioned rooms, away from the mosquitoes and the flies...

Leila Aboulela

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

Johann von Goethe

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Jean Cocteau, "New York WorldTel

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

Charles L. Lucas

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

George Washington

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

William Shakespeare

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Joe Bamford

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Samuel Johnson