Laurence Binyon Quotes

#1. With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Laurence Binyon

#2. When someone is upset, it's not a good time to bring up your own problems.

Cynthia Lord

#3. The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.

Pink

#4. They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

Laurence Binyon

#5. You learn to write by writing.

William Zinsser

#6. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Laurence Binyon

#7. [T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.

Eugene Wigner

#8. The little street
Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.

Laurence Binyon

#9. We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

Laurence Binyon

#10. No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the confirmation of a nominee for the Supreme Court for a lifetime appointment.

Arlen Specter

#11. The candy melted smoothly and easily on my tongue. I had no idea anything in the world could taste like that. I thought i would turn to stone right there.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#12. All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.

Orson Scott Card

#13. Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.

Robert Schumann

#14. Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?

Eric Hoffer

#15. I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

John Milton

#16. Two children, all alone and no one by,
Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze
Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet
Dance sedately; face to face they gaze,
Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure.

Laurence Binyon

#17. People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

Gene Spafford