Hunayn Quotes

#1. From Hunayn ibn-Ishak (Diogenes,8), we learn about his view of women and education: when he saw a man teaching a girl how to read and write, he advised him not to make a bad thing even worse.

Luis E. Navia

#2. I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

Grimes

#3. It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#4. When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time and that they were more complicated people than they knew.

Murray Kempton

#5. I say bad things happen. Sometimes it's because of the choices we make, and sometimes it's because of the choices other people make . . . and sometimes it just happens.

Patrick W. Carr

#6. Get people to sing together and they'll act together too.

Pete Seeger

#7. I make rude gestures at nuns

Cassandra Clare