Antracite Quotes & Sayings

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. — Emma Goldman

A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime. — Stephen Vincent Benet

The great city seemed to weigh upon me, as though it were crushing me under its heap of brick and stone. Gray, drizzly skies, congested streets, the soot-belching boats and barges chugging up and down the Thames, the teeming mass of four millions hastening about the countless activities of daily life in a metropolis, things adventurous, meaningful, spiritual, quotidian, futile, criminal, meaningless and absurd. Amidst this seething stew of humanity, I painted. — Gary Inbinder

How joyously the young sea-mew
Lay dreaming on the waters blue,
Whereon our little bark had thrown
A little shade, the only one;
But shadows ever man pursue. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core. — Stephen Lewis

Will you gentlemen take breakfast with me?' asked the Professor. There is little need to record the answer to that particular question. — Robert Rankin

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world. — Tommy Douglas

Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope. — A.J. Cronin

Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life. — Bill Bowerman

Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection. — Jean Cocteau

Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home. — Emme Rollins

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves. — Pablo Picasso

Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having. — Elizabeth Arden

It's just a blessing. Artists search and search for songs that will connect for a new artist because the familiarity is so low. People don't know what you look like. It's just so unbelievable to find a song that people are relating to. To have a song that people will actually pick up the phone and call the station to ask. It's a blessing. — Rodney Atkins

So far we have done too much of 'spatial engineering'. The real thing is 'non-spatial engineering'. — Kedar Joshi

It was easy,' I said. — Mickey Spillane