John Ruskin Quotes
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
Queen Latifah
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
Zack Snyder
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
Laura Mennell
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
G. Stanley Hall
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
Eamon de Valera
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
J. G. Ballard
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
Kate Christensen
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Samuel Adams
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
Dana Carvey
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Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.
Maria Semple
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You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.
Letitia Baldrige
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Becoming awarrior and facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. By looking at yourself, you may find that you've been a bad boy or girl, and you may feel terrible about yourself. Your existence may feel wretched, completely pitch-black, like the black hole of Calcutta. Or you may see something good about yourself. The idea is simply to face the facts. Honesty plays a very important part. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself.
Chogyam Trungpa
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin
