Birkenbuel Cory Quotes

#1. If I wasn't compassionate toward myself, no one else would be either. It had to start within.

Julie Flygare

#2. My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.

Rachel Nichols

#3. Independence of mind, enthusiasm, dedication to the field, and willingness to challenge and question and to explore new direction. There are plenty of people like that, but schools tend to discourage those characteristics.

Noam Chomsky

#4. So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.

Edmund Morgan

#5. Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study are insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.

Frank Herbert

#6. As she watched her friend disappear down the sleepy street of dusty sunshine ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. His most important books are his two Logics, and these must be understood if the reasons for his views on other subjects are to be rightly apprehended.

Bertrand Russell

#8. Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I'm sure about is I'm real ordinary. Yet I've had the chance to touch the lives of a lotta people.

Werner Erhard

#9. Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor