Drapeaux Africains Quotes & Sayings

Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America, the foundational religion was Christianity. And it was sown in the hearts of Americans through the home and private and public schools for centuries. Our liberty, growth, and prosperity was the result of a Biblical philosophy of life. Our continued freedom and success is dependent on our educating the youth of America in the principles of Christianity. — Noah Webster

Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one. — Alain De Botton

I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny. — Oprah Winfrey

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems. — Vannevar Bush

All of you, fare well, and may you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand. — Robert Jordan

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal. — Alfred Austin

I have lots of ideas. The problem for me has always been which one to do. — Chris Van Allsburg

I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing. — Jack White

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician. — Youssou N'Dour

Lady Gaga not a diva, and she's not crazy. She's just an incredibly nice, down-to-earth person who really cares about art and creativity. It's pretty amazing to be able to work with her. I'm pretty grateful for that. — Evan Peters

My part," was the prompt reply, "was to run away, and the Lord's part was to run after me until He caught me. — Hannah Whitall Smith

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. — John Ruskin

Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

The problems of peace are greater than the problems of war. — Billy Graham

The Ionian idea that the universe is not human-centered was a milestone — Stephen Hawking