Quotes About Mount Vernon

#1. What then was I doing visiting George Washington's Mount Vernon many years ago with Hazel? Confused? Confessedly. How can any American who isn't white not be?

Randall Robinson

#2. Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

John Barrowman

#3. I can truly say I had rather be a Mount Vernon than to be attended at the Seat of Government by the Officers of State and the Representatives of every Power in Europe.

George Washington

#4. A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Tony Robbins

#6. I'm being forced to challenge ideas that have kept me safe for so long. There's an entire library of information in my head, and suddenly I can't decide if any of it is worth reading.

Louise Gornall

#7. There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.

Lauren Oliver

#8. ...
KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be.

POLO: And here, in fact, we are.

Italo Calvino

#9. If you are looking for love, you may not find it, but if you love every one for sure, they will return it.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

Edward Norton

#12. Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.

Dalai Lama XIV

#13. There are times in a man's life when he says things he will never be able take back. It's true words can have a physical impact on somebody. A person can concuss with their words. Words can snap as fast as a trap in the woods and leave a victim to writhe for weeks.

Donald Miller