Robert Famous Quotes
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo."
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat."
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Quotations
"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man."
Erich Fromm
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war
Hermocrates of Syracuse
"Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had."
Francis Bacon
"After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'"
Ronnie Shakes
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham."
Frederick Douglas
"Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family."
Carl T Rowan Jr
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
Alice Walker
"It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are."
Ovid