Icebound Quotes

#1. It's the Black Sea in a midnight gale. - It's the unnatural combat of the four primal elements. - It's a blasted heath. - It's a Hyperborean winter scene. - It's the breaking-up of the icebound stream of Time.

Herman Melville

#2. An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

John Henry Newman

#3. We're either going to save the world or no one will be saved.

Maurice Strong

#4. Loving our parents, we bring them into us. They inhabit us. For a long time I believed that I could not bear to live without Mom and Dad - I could not bear to "outlive" them - for to be a daughter without parents did not seem possible to me.

Joyce Carol Oates

#5. I used to know kids better because I was teaching in a classroom, but I still have a sense of comfort with them. I don't believe that kids have essentially changed.

Cynthia Voigt

#6. If you make a commitment, honor it. If you make a promise, keep it. If you set a goal, achieve it.

Gary Ryan

#7. I have a trunk containing continents.

Beryl Markham