Twenty Years At Hull House Quotes

#1. Jane Addams, writing about her Twenty Years at Hull House, said, People did not want to hear about simple things. They wanted to hear about great things - simply told.

Fred Rogers

#2. He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

Seneca The Younger

#3. If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and you have to deal with that. It just cannot be a reason to take actions to exit certain markets.

Robin Li

#4. Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

Will Carleton

#5. Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.
Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"
is a simpleton.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Jostein Gaarder

#7. People are cruel. They like to kill. It's the war that has taught them that. And there are explosives lying around everywhere

Agota Kristof

#8. For we were, as I say, an idealistic generation for whom the question was not simply one of how well one practised one's skills, but to what end one did so; each of us harboured the desire to make our own small contribution to the creation of a better world,

Kazuo Ishiguro

#9. It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

Noam Chomsky

#10. Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

Jean De La Bruyere

#11. The kind of late where the 99% effective warnings on the side of condom boxes flashed before my eyes as I white knuckled my way down the 405, silently screaming, why me? Why, oh why me? I'm a new millennium girl. I took copious notes in 6th grade Sex Ed.

Gemma Halliday