Nctj Exam Quotes

#1. We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. Tightly held by rocks
Through winter, the ice today
Begins to come undone:
A way-seeker also is the water,
Melting, murmuring from the moss.

Saigyo

#3. It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

Anthony Doerr

#4. There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness ... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

Andrew Jackson

#5. None of us ask for some things. We don't ask to be born where we were. We don't ask for those things which limit us. We have to do the best we can with what we have where we are. And we can try to change things, but you can't do any of that if you refuse to accept where you are.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#6. Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

Maria Augusta Von Trapp