Marian Wright Edelman Famous Quotes
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."
Marian Wright Edelman Quotations
"Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience."
Randolph Bourne
"...solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition..."
Amelia Barr
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be
Chauncey Wright
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T Washington
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
Earl Mac Rauch
"Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood."
Laurence Sterne
"To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again."
David Viscott
"Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness."
Ross Hersey
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg