Osterley National Trust Quotes

#1. I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.

Diana Peterfreund

#2. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, Of Beauty

Scott Westerfeld

#3. God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?

Sister Souljah

#5. My brother had the faith my father brought him to, and for a long time, I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this.

Jacqueline Woodson

#6. A brush with death always helps us live our lives better

Paulo Coelho

#7. When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.

Virginia Madsen

#8. You want to make it to the top? There is no top. However high you climb, there is always somebody above you. Mailer wanted to be Hemingway, Hemingway wanted to be Joyce, and Joyce was painfully aware he'd never be another Shakespeare.

William Deresiewicz

#9. But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius's shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a small aching need in him for somebody to notice, even if they were not glad, that he had come home.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#10. Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

Paul Wellstone

#11. Let your imagination cast a spell on your pen, and be amazed at how it moves, and exposes your freedom.

C.C. Wyatt

#12. We are not called "human stagnates." We are called human beings, persons in process, persons involved in the act and art of actually shaping or reshaping ourselves, or working to understand what Frank Barron calls the "patterns within diversity.

Sandra A. Thomson

#13. The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become.

Novak Djokovic