Bicentenary House Quotes & Sayings

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever. — Wilma Rudolph

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness. — Pliny The Elder

I have the ability to make a choice in how I respond. My natural response does not have to be the only response I have. — Jill Bolte Taylor

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace ... but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had. — Alice Walker

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves. — Sugata Mitra

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. — Jack Valenti

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live. — Joseph Conrad

From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

She went out on the balcony and leaned — Stieg Larsson

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. — Aesop