But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

Elisabeth Shue

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

Ann Brashares

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Jodi Picoult

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

John Maynard Keynes

Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

William Blackstone, Commentaries

There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.

Elisha Cuthbert

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

Barry Manilow

Thanks for not trying to see me when I looked like hell.To be fair, you still look pretty bad.

John Green

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Samuel Johnson

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within

Mahatma Gandhi

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

John Warnock