Brookings Institute Quotes & Sayings

Our children are not our possessions, Nora. They're loaned to us to raise and to be set free. From the time he could look up, he was determined to fly high and fast. — Robyn Carr

After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always. — Richard Flanagan

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience. — Anwar Robinson

It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children. — Rick Santorum

We carry the flame for all to see, the fire and passion of what we can be. — Meat Loaf

Don't you wish love was so strong it could come back to haunt you? — Jodi Picoult

Talking doesn't get your point across but listening does. — Debasish Mridha

The past is what it is - good and bad, it's written and unchanging. And there's solace to be had in that. — J.R. Ward

I did not know it but I was already coming up against one of the great pitfalls of the small operator - the almost insoluble problem of when to enter the market. — Nicolas Darvas

I am still so proud to have been a part of something that introduced theater to so many people who weren't exposed to it before. We took Broadway and put it in peoples' living rooms once a week for two seasons. People still come up to me in the street and say, 'I never went to theater before I saw "Smash.'" That's the greatest compliment. — Megan Hilty

Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks. — Evan Osnos