Lemann Nicholas Quotes

#1. Energy will go into what you love, and what you love will grow. Go for a walk and watch it bloom.

A.D. Posey

#2. In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

Nicholas Lemann

#3. Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

Darius Rucker

#4. Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#5. She was fabulously wrong when she said it the first time, and stunningly arrogant in her refusal to express any regret for lying to our fellow citizens.

Trey Gowdy

#6. I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.

Helen Garner

#7. It takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.

Ed Zern

#8. You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

Nicholas Lemann

#9. Missionaries can take nothing greater to the heathen world than the impress and reflection of the Love of God upon their own character.

Henry Drummond

#10. Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather was so horrible, you literally couldn't get there except by helicopter.

Grace Slick

#11. Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.

Nicholas Lemann

#12. Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

Blaise Pascal

#13. My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

Lisa Whelchel

#14. Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

Paul LePage