Francis Wayland Parker Quotes

#1. A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.

George Ellwanger

#2. I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems are.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

Geoff Dyer

#4. The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

Simon Blackburn

#5. The end and aim of all education is the development of character.

Francis Wayland Parker

#6. The hand that gives is the hand that gathers.

Robin S. Sharma

#7. Successive bursts of static came through the headphones, against a background of deep, low-pitched murmuring, which seemed to me the very voice of the planet itself.

Stanislaw Lem

#8. Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work, may be called the end and aim of schools. In education, no work should be done for the sake of the thing done, but for the sake of the growing mind.

Francis Wayland Parker

#9. I was miserable as a kid.

Maurice Sendak