Annie Sullivan Famous Quotes
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose--not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."
"Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything."
Annie Sullivan Quotations
"The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds."
King Farouk of Egypt
A scholar knows no boredom.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
M C Richards
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Alcuin
"The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
Epicurus
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Charles Austin Beard
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
William Blake
For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard...
William Shakespeare
"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
Robert Benchley