Robert Frost Quotes

He knew a path that wanted walking; He knew a spring that wanted drinking; A thought that wanted further thinking.

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• It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Time
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Live
  • City
  • Same

• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Never
  • Independent
  • Fruit

• I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Age
  • Years

• My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Style
  • Myself

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Good
  • Great
  • News

• It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Politics

• Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Spiritual
  • Aesthetic

• There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Better
  • Theory
  • Before

• My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Peace
  • Chaos

• I loved seeing my mom put her own twist on years-old family recipes and also create new dishes. This made me develop a passion for cooking at a young age and would eventually inspire me to prepare meals and host wonderful family dinners.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Age
  • Mom

• During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Children
  • Job
  • Remember

• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  

  Mae West
  • Live
  • Enough
  • Right

• I'll back up anything my dad says.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Back

• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mankind
  • Quiet
  • Stay

• I didn't even know I was the first female Republican campaign manager until someone pointed it out to me on Twitter, and I said that can't be true. And then I realized this must be such a small group of women. And right away, I know them all - Susan Estrich and Donna Brazile and Beth Myers - and I respect them enormously.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Women
  • True
  • Small

• I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Atheist

• I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Parents

• Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

  

  Demosthenes
  • People
  • Brother
  • Path

• Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Choose
  • Creation
  • Act

• He knew a path that wanted walking; He knew a spring that wanted drinking; A thought that wanted further thinking.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Thinking
  • Path
  • Walking