John Wellborn Root Quotes

#1. My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman.

Kliff Kingsbury

#2. twelve plus three. Steve also reminded me that fifteen-month tours brought to bear the "law of twos" - soldiers would now potentially miss two Christmases, two anniversaries, two birthdays. Still,

Robert M. Gates

#3. People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

David Sedaris

#4. Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

Alexander Pope

#5. There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

Massimo Vignelli

#6. As so often happens when scientists quarrel, a lay audience is left to choose their preferred fairy tale

Richard T. Nash

#7. Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

Jasper Fforde

#8. Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

Steve Earle

#9. Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.

Vicente Fox

#10. More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians
than had died before in all the persecutions.

Ramsay MacMullen

#11. Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

Ang Lee

#12. A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

Martin E. Marty

#13. If you're funny as a woman, people think it might be because someone else helped you.

Alice Lowe

#14. Work, the old people say, keeps a man young. But perhaps that is something old folk say just because they know they must go on working.

Robin Hobb

#15. Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.

Cesar Chavez