Buccleuch Mansion Quotes & Sayings

Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart. — Robert Browning

If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth. — Mahatma Gandhi

Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character. — Criss Jami

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. — Jeff Goodell

What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.' — Lady Gregory

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. — Quentin Crisp

Our contribution to the progress of the world must, therefore, consist in setting our own house in order. — Mahatma Gandhi

The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it. — Emma Thompson

Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself. — Timothy Miller

I've won because I could understand the way my enemy thought. From what they did. I could tell what they thought I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. — Orson Scott Card

In thinking back, not having any experience in any other elementary school, there may have been an advantage of being with different age groups to benefit from what they were learning in a more advanced capacity. With a small group like that, there was a lot of one-to-one teaching. — Paul Smith

In order to be creative, you don't have to be original. — Ray Bradbury

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The history of the world is the world's court of justice. — Friedrich Schiller