Manufactory Quotes

#1. Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

#2. This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

Henry Ward Beecher

#3. The school is the manufactory of humanity.

John Amos Comenius

#4. Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. spend all the wages they earn and enjoy themselves while they can appears to be evident from the number of families that, upon the failure of any great manufactory, immediately fall upon the parish,

Thomas Robert Malthus

#6. Stage 13 was, then, a toy shop, a magic chest, a sorcerer's trunk, a trick manufactory, and an aerial hangar of dreams at the center of which Roy stood each day, waving his long piano fingers at mythic beasts to stir them, whispering, in the ten-billion-year slumbers.

Ray Bradbury

#7. The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.

Sarah Churchwell

#8. I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder ... I didn't chisel anything in stone ... Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.

Anne Heche

#9. The tests and exams were not so difficult to pass but we fail a 'yes' or 'no' answer when it comes to dealing with sin

Wogu Donald

#10. Though we cannot see the heart, we can see the life.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#11. My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers. I told her You're eleven, make your own!

Jeremy Hardy

#12. I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

George Benson

#13. He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

Sarah Bernhardt

#14. Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Matthea Harvey

#15. Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.

Cheyenne McCray

#16. I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.

Ahmed Chalabi

#17. We're a heart attack away from losing the right to bear arms.

Jeff Foxworthy

#18. You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and destruction: in an earlier and less credulous age, the local citizens would have gathered at the first sight of you and driven you off with stones -

Robert Harris

#19. having nothing that can be stolen, exploited,

John Steinbeck

#20. Though He did what he could to help the multitudes, He had to devote Himself primarily to a few men, rather than the masses, so that the masses could at last be saved. This was the genius of his strategy.

Robert Emerson Coleman

#21. Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

Byron Katie