John Ruskin Quotes

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

John Ruskin

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• When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Child

• It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Crazy
  • Religious
  • Degree

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Money
  • Learn
  • Cook

• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Country
  • Prove
  • United

• You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Travel
  • Write

• Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Best
  • Celebration

• We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.

  

  Hal Hartley

• I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

  

  Octave Chanute
  • Believe
  • Machines
  • Flight

• The lyrics to the single 'Survivor' are Destiny's Child's story, because we've been through a lot, ... We went through our drama with the members ... Any complications we've had in our 10-year period of time have made us closer and tighter and better.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Time
  • Children
  • Single

• Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

  

  L. M. Boyd
  • Chinese
  • Firsts
  • Knives

• I have always tried to do everything that's been in my power to defend and sustain our institutions. I have demonstrated in my public life that I loyally serve my country and that I love freedom. It has been my sole purpose to propose what I think best for your highest interests, which are to strengthen peace in the future and strengthen our institutions.

  

  Benito Juarez
  • Life
  • Country
  • Power

• It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • Environment

• Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams, And shoot the shadows through and through with light? What matters one lost vision of the night? Let the dream go!

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Night

• Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Car

• As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Kill
  • Chickens
  • Almighty

• Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you get on an airplane to the U.S. and claim asylum...when you arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, they will say to you, 'OK, we'll give you a hearing on whether you deserve asylum. Show up in a year.' And two-thirds of the people never show up.

  

  Charles Schumer
  • Immigration
  • Deserve
  • Airplane

• The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Facts
  • Worship
  • Praise

• My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.

  

  Bruce Bruce
  • Comedy
  • Color
  • Humor

• When I'm good at something, I always try to be the best at it and claim that throne. Even in school, I never let anyone say anything to me; I would always be the smartest.

  

  Stormzy
  • Best
  • Try
  • Claim

• When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Hearts
  • Praise
  • Builds