Barbauld To A Little Invisible Being Quotes & Sayings

My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame. — Zaha Hadid

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters. — George Herbert

It was difficult to understand him. On the one hand he pandered even to the most unimportant things while on the other he was excessive and unfeeling. He might show the most fatherly concern for a female secretary who had stabbed her toe but be utterly ice-cold when issuing orders which set thousands to their deaths. — Heinz Linge

defenestration," which derives from "fenestra," the Latin word for "window," refers to the act of throwing something or someone out of the window. Knowing this, we can impress our friends with statements like, "Sally finished her apple and defenestrated the core.") — Doug Erlandson

A fruitless year, take a fearless heart
One that blooms late will flourish in the dark — Criss Jami

The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways. — D. A. Carson

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead. — Nicole Krauss

Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice. — Dan Quayle

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts. — Mahatma Gandhi

Few men have been admired of their familiars. — Michel De Montaigne

God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns. — Jeffrey R. Holland

The business of hip hop is probably the most tangible example of the genre's dramatic maturation. — Carlos Wallace

In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment. — Moby

Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking? — Terry Eagleton

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach