Maestra In English Quotes

#1. We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#2. As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.

Dan Groat

#3. That sounded like an insult, but he wasn't sure. "What's a dillweed?"
"You. You're a dill weed."
Well, that cleared things right up.

Erin McCarthy

#4. Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.

Gail Collins

#5. Then where is home, Johannes?" He looks at the maps on his wall. "I don't know," He says. "Where comfort is. And that is hard to find.

Jessie Burton

#6. It's a very old word, it means 'to breathe into.' That's how it works: An angel breathes into men and shows us what to play, what to draw. How to find the truth of who we are and why we are here.

Jon Steele

#7. The local painters were my idols ... These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine!

Frederick Franck

#8. Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.

Jeaniene Frost