George H. Brimhall Quotes

The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it.

George H. Brimhall

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• I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Way
  • Religion
  • Problems

• There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Healthy
  • Eating
  • Meat

• Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Fun
  • Food
  • Style

• I think punditry serves no purpose.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Purpose
  • I Think

• This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Business
  • Numbers
  • Investing

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Great
  • Family
  • Kids

• It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Odd
  • Playwright

• I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Artist
  • Enough
  • Often

• I love the Army with every bone in my body.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Body
  • Army
  • Bone

• I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Science
  • Like
  • Geography

• When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • You
  • Always
  • Young

• We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Want
  • Consequences
  • Repeat

• A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Tree

• I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Man

• I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Work
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

  

  Laura Osnes
  • School
  • High
  • Theatre

• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Wisdom
  • Result
  • Ages

• The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it.

  

  George H. Brimhall
  • School
  • Care
  • Planted