Burnt Branch Quotes & Sayings

The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind. — Maria Montessori

The Jardin Massey looked dismal today, rain lashed and deserted. She watched a bedraggled pigeon, feathers puffed out, sheltering beneath a branch.She'd never made a will, never considered whether she'd rather her body was buried or burnt to grey powder. And where would she want to be buried - in a French graveyard, gaudy with plastic flowers? If she made a will, could she state an aversion to plastic? — Jackie Ley

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age. — Vincent Massey

I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because I've been so absorbed in the last few series that I'd sort of forgotten that it wasn't real. — Frank Cottrell Boyce

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. — Thomas More

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate. — Sigrid Undset

He is not a lover who does not love forever. — Euripides

Don't tell him to stop but don't let him play my song too long. There are others he should be playing. — Anyta Sunday

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast. — Mark Twain

The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. — Barack Obama

But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five. — Anthony Holden