Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Space
  • Humans
  • Bullying

• It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Porter
  • Rumoured
  • Mortal Boy

• I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Dancing
  • Asking
  • Phones

• I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• In my heart I do have a fear...I long to grow more godly with each passing day. Call it "the fear of the Lord," being in awe of Him and scared to death of any sin that would mar my life.

  

  Anne Ortlund
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Sin

• I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Stories
  • Knowing
  • Wells

• Viéndome, me pregunto: ¿qué pretenden verse los demás?

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Experience
  • Air
  • Sense

• When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • People
  • Done
  • Funny

• Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Course
  • Recitals
  • Pianoforte

• We are Germans. We are Armenians. French, Italian, Russian, American, Asian, African... many other nationalities. We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu. We are black, we are white. We are a community of some many differences, so complex and yet so simple. We do not need to have war!

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Community
  • Christians
  • Jewish

• Gay love, God save it, so soone hotte, so soone colde.

  

  Nicholas Udall
  • God
  • Love
  • Save

• You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Support

• I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Understanding
  • Working
  • Modern

• Schooling is so important.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Important
  • Schooling

• I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Right
  • Club
  • Schooling

• I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Life
  • Education
  • Beatles

• If a free people is going to be reproduced, it will require watering and revivifying and owning anew older traditions and awaking the curiosity in the soul of each citizen. National greatness will not be recovered via a mindless expansion of bureaucratized schooling. Seventy years ago, Dorothy Sayers wrote, 'Sure, we demand another grant of money, we postpone the school leaving age and plan to build bigger and better schools. We demand that teachers further slave conscientiously in and out of school hours. But to what end? I believe,' Sayers lamented, 'all this devoted effort is largely frustrated because we have no definable goal for each child to become a fully formed adult. We have lost the tools of learning, sacrificing them to the piecemeal, subject matter approach of bureaucratized schooling that finally compromises to produce passive rather than active emerging adults. But our kids are not commodities, they are plants. They require a protected environment, and care, and feeding, but most basically, an internal yearning to grow toward the sunlight. What we need is the equipping of each child with those lost tools.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Kids
  • Teachers
  • Citizen

• I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Schooling