John Ruskin Quotes

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

John Ruskin

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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

Jack Straw
- Up
- Children
- Mother
The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

Dan Lipinski
- Home
- America
- Wilderness
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

Barbra Streisand
- Mother
- Me
- Young
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Ice T
- Up
- Men
- Think
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

Daniel Bell
- People
- Up
- Experience
People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

D. A. Pennebaker
- People
- Different
- Want