Grammatica Quotes

#1. There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

Herbert Benson

#3. Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Homo sapiens is about pattern recognition, he says. Both a gift and a trap.

William Gibson

#5. During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn't necessarily trust that information, but it gave me ideas about questions to ask. You can really learn things from the wisdom of crowds.

Nicholas Kristof

#6. Education is our right, I said. Just as it is our right to sing. Islam has given us this right and says that every girl and boy should go to school. The Quran says we should seek knowledge, study hard and learn the mysteries of our world.

Malala Yousafzai

#7. Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

Phyllis Bottome

#8. There IS POWER IN PRAYER! It is the cheapest intangible asset we have and do not use enough of.

Deborah Dolen

#9. But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests-when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.

Thomas Hardy

#10. We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.

Mariah Carey

#11. What was it like in there? Inside a daisy?" My answer: "Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey.

Tom Robbins

#12. Know that however ugly the parts appear
the whole remains beautiful ...
... the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty
of the universe. Love that, not man
Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions,
or drown in despair when his days darken.

Robinson Jeffers

#13. If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#14. A few days, then. At least give me that much. I ... I've nothing suitable to wear."
"I dinna care about the color of your frock, lass. I'm only going to take it off you again."
She blinked. "Oh."
-Maddie & Logan

Tessa Dare