Seaweeds Oak Quotes

#1. If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.

Carolyn See

#2. Whatever the pedagogical merits may be of feeding children misinformation, it is inappropriate for adults. There is nothing wrong with beginning a sentence with a coordinator.

Steven Pinker

#3. Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic today): "In fourteen hundred and ninety-five, sixteen hundred people he kidnapped alive." Columbus

Brian D. McLaren

#4. Nobody knew how to be what they were right.

John Barth

#5. It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. How strange to think there was something worse than death.

Eric Walters

#7. French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Stephen Gardiner

#8. Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.

Emmet Fox

#9. Not even on the most distorted and contracted theory of good which ever was framed by religious or philosophical fanaticism, can the government of Nature be made to resemble the work of a being at once good and omnipotent.

John Stuart Mill

#10. The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

John Piper

#11. I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

Sylvester Stallone

#12. It's so hard to keep everything balanced in life.

Rosanna Arquette

#13. Love is stupid. So I don't care if it's love. You're the best part of every damn day. You're sunshine, and laughter, and the fucking oxygen in my lungs. If this life is a game, you make me want to play it forever, be damned who wins or loses.

Jewel E. Ann

#14. Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.

David Perlmutter