1778 Revolutionary Quotes

#1. Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic today): "In fourteen hundred and ninety-five, sixteen hundred people he kidnapped alive." Columbus

Brian D. McLaren

#2. As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite.

R. K. Laxman

#3. How can i eat now? I'm going to Seattle by helicopter with Christian Gray..And he wants to bite my lip..

E.L. James

#4. The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

Norman Mailer

#5. There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

Francis Bacon

#6. That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.

Paul Fleischman

#7. I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

Joel Kinnaman

#8. Blaze your own glittery, sparkly, fiery, shimmering path. Surround yourself with the things that make you shine. Create your bubble and thrive in it.

Cara Alwill Leyba

#9. The thing is, you try your best, and what else you got? You try your best, really, that's all you can do. And for me, my best happens really so rarely.

Junot Diaz

#10. He who can, can ...
He who cannot, cannot ...
But, He who can and will not, Fails.

DANNY KURIAN