Birdwhistell Georgetown Quotes

#1. Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

Thomas Tredgold

#2. Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

Peter Steinhart

#3. I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

Portia De Rossi

#4. I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect.

Derrek Lee

#5. It occurred to me that there are at least three indisputable facts about best friends: 1. They wait for you, and 2. They slow down enough to walk beside you, and 3. They always know when you need hot chocolate.

Natalie Lloyd

#6. I hope that my children will someday be as proud of me as I am of my mom. I am so grateful to be her daughter. I'm so grateful that she is Charlotte's and Aiden's grandmother. She makes me proud every single day.

Chelsea Clinton

#7. In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war killed 120,000 people, and crime killed another 500,000). In contrast, 800,000 committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes.23 Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.

Yuval Noah Harari

#8. You should try getting some sleep."
Sloane frowned. "Giraffes only sleep four and a half hours a day."
-Sloane

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#9. Fashion needs to be worn.

Christian Lacroix