Most Overused Senior Quotes

#1. I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and do the things I knew I could do for a while.

Josh Hartnett

#2. If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.

Andrew Mellon

#3. The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

Maria Montessori

#4. A whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama.

Herman Melville

#5. Nowadays, people of many lands and cultures are being intermingled more and more. Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists may live in the same apartment building. In which case it is more important to accept each other's beliefs than to ask why everyone does not believe the same thing

Jostein Gaarder

#6. That town sits on the coals of the earth, at the very mouth of hell. They say that when people from there go to hell, they come back for a blanket.

Juan Rulfo

#7. The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

Sydney Schanberg

#8. That does it. It can't be true love. Mr. Willow has eyes like a sick kitten. You might love a sick kitten but you don't marry it, you keep it as a pet.

Rodman Philbrick

#9. Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

Amartya Sen

#10. Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity; it showcases the fact that the soul of the music has been compromised to control the industry.

Immortal Technique

#11. Don't gobblefunk around with words.

Roald Dahl

#12. The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.

John Hersey

#13. To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

Leon Uris

#14. Resist demonstrating that your worldliness was more fiction than fact," he whispered. "You, Lady Agatha, in the common parlance with which you are so fascinatingly familiar, 'ain't so tough.

Connie Brockway

#15. A fool mistakes meekness for weakness and a quiet tongue for an idle mind.

R.A. Mathis