Bascomb Elementary Quotes & Sayings

The earth is a great piece of stupidity. — Victor Hugo

If God is the author of life, there must be a script. — Ravi Zacharias

The most intimate community of all knowledge - the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars. — Novalis

Don't you love to look at coffins? I've always enjoyed looking at one now and then. I think of a coffin as an absolutely lovely piece of furniture, even when it's empty, and if there's someone lying in it, it's really quite sublime in my eyes. — Thomas Mann

I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment. — John Newton

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

but my heart's all yours, so I can't give it away. Not to anyone. — Kyra Davis

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height. — Soren Kierkegaard

Why resist the overtures of mercy? Why say, "Let me alone," until God shall be compelled to give you your desire, since you will have it so? — Ellen G. White

The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised. — Jenny Eclair

If you treat someone under your control like a dolt, he will react like a dolt; treat him like an animal, and he will respond like an animal; treat him as an object of contempt, and he will become filled with a self-contempt that must sooner or later erupt in rage, hate and violence. — Sydney J. Harris

If you think it, the camera will see it. — Wes Craven

The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner. — Claude Nicollier