Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve Famous Quotes
"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce."
"I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society."
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve Quotations
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato
Don't cry because it's over smile because it happened.
Unknown
Within a stone's throw of it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important."
Eugene McCarthy
It ain't over 'till it's over.
Yogi Berra
"You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes."
Denis Watley
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
I wish you all the joy you can wish.
William Shakespeare