Blesser Park Quotes & Sayings

Museums should no longer concern themselves with history on a grand scale, the sagas of kings and heroes, or the forging of national identities; they should focus instead on the lives and belongings of ordinary people, just as modern novels do. — Orhan Pamuk

It's always worthwhile speaking to a clever man. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there comes among you a prophet saying 'Let us return to the darkness,' you shall stone him, because he has sought to thrust you away from the light. — David Litwack

Life was like the ice on an early-winter pond: more fragile than it appeared to be, riddled by hidden fractures, with a cold darkness below. — Dean Koontz

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance. With — Oscar Wilde

It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him. — Maria Montessori

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. — David Antin

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Joy is not the absence of darkness. Joy is confidence that the darkness will lift. — Rebekah Lyons

Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order for "rational" is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression. — Herbert Marcuse

I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows. — Van Morrison

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years. — Josh Billings

I thought about him going into my mom's when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her report card and saying that her bad grades would never happen again. And I think now that maybe he meant my older brother. Or my sister. Or me. That he would make sure that he was the last one to work in a mill. — Stephen Chbosky

Russia's increased Arctic presence. The Arctic has vast natural resources and security value, and Russia is drastically increasing its footprint in the region. — Don Young