Lucille Clifton Famous Quotes



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Lucille Clifton Quotations






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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior."
Francis Bacon

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Albert Einstein

"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion."
William Cullen Bryant

"You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should."
Max Ehrmann

"A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years."
Unknown

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.
Anon

"Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man."
Pablo Picasso

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard Feynman

It's deja vu all over again
Yogi Berra