Emerson Institution Quotes & Sayings

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No institution will be better than the institutor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about. — Louis C.K.

Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it. — Heather Locklear

You want to be the best at your position. And if people think of me as one of the best ever, that's the ultimate compliment. — Brian Urlacher

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know, you'll hear the statement of African Americans saying, I have to work with whites. — Michael Emerson

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be overwhelmed by a man's fancy car, fancy house or fancy clothes. It's really the person inside the care, house and clothes that matters. By the same token, don't be underwhelmed by a less-than-fancy car, house or clohtes. Women can earn the car and house themselves, and you can always buy your man nice clothes, too. — Sumiko Tan

The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius ... They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems. — Meg Cabot

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore. — F Scott Fitzgerald