Ultimato Quotes

#1. Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.

Carew Papritz

#2. In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#3. It's the central executive in your brain that notices that the floor is dirty. It forms an executive attentional set for "mop the floor" and then constructs a worker attentional set for doing the actual mopping.

Daniel J. Levitin

#4. The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected.

Janna Levin

#5. When George Washington ran for election to Virginia's local assembly, the House of Burgesses, in 1758, his campaign team handed out twenty-eight gallons of rum, fifty gallons of rum punch, thirty-four of wine, forty-six of beer, and two of cider - in a county with only 391 voters.

Tom Standage

#6. My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Mary Augusta Ward

#7. Whatever you do in life, do it with courage, and you won't go far wrong ...

Anonymous

#8. When they pray, what do they say to God?

Jonathan Kozol

#9. Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

John Le Carre

#10. There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.

Richard Feynman