Family Lighthouse Quotes & Sayings

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. — Peter Cochrane

Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung. — Walter Scott

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard. — Theodore Roosevelt

War makes strange bedfellows. — Helen Thomas

Sometimes doing things we used to do reminds us of who we used to be, and not always in good ways. — Brandon Sanderson

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness. — Mason Cooley

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out. — Rebecca Wells

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. — Edward Gibbon

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed! — Friedrich Nietzsche

She sounded like she really meant it, and I wondered if I actually was standing here on the sidewalk with her, and not still asleep in my room. — Claudette Melanson

I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot. — G-Eazy

When you have all, why torment the depths? — Keith Waldrop