Lechner Scholarship Quotes

#1. The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

Charles Dickens

#2. I had a great experience at the [2011] World Cup. Unfortunately, we didn't end on the note we wanted to, but I still had an Amazing time representing our country and playing in front of thousands of fans.

Amy Rodriguez

#3. ..love doesn't just show up and disappear, Not real love.

A.S. King

#4. We are all the same. We have the same hopes, fears, strengths, and weaknesses.

Kevin Griffin

#5. The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy. It won't work. We have to be the party that can stand toe to toe with George W. Bush on national security, as well as the party of compassion.

Wesley Clark

#6. Aristocrats have heirs, the poor have children, and the rest keep dogs.

Spike Milligan

#7. Unless you eat foods clearly marked "Certified organic by the USDA," you are taking part in a genetic experiment that is unprecedented in earth's long history.

Alberto Villoldo

#8. I've never read one book about my father.

Ziggy Marley

#9. I'm a pretty organised traveller.

Penny Lancaster

#10. The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just in proportion to their approach the gentleness of most men diminishes.

George MacDonald

#11. Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?

Margaret Mitchell

#13. Let me tell you something. Do you know why those Turkish girls cover their faces? You think it's because of religion? No. It's because otherwise no one can stand to look at them!

Jeffrey Eugenides

#14. Everything in L.A. is - it's just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you got the ocean right there and the mountains behind you; there's an idealised easiness to the way you live and the whole environment.

Spike Jonze

#15. Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Robert Browning