Gombe State Quotes & Sayings

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn, for what purpose he knows not, though sometimes he thinks he feels it — Albert Einstein

No one comes back from the dead, no one has entered the world without crying; no one is asked when he wishes to enter life, nor when he wishes to leave. — Soren Kierkegaard

A four foot box, a foot for every year. — Seamus Heaney

In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences. — Tony Hoare

It is good to think that in Heaven all troubles will be over, that war and carnage will be no more, that all injustice, cruelty and wrong shall be no more; but incomparably better is it for a man to gird on the whole armour of truth and righteousness, and wage war with these evils, and banish them from the Earth -- and thus have the will of God done on Earth as done in Heaven. — Frederick Douglass

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. — Roy Lichtenstein

Settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual — Charles Dickens

The burden of my anxiety is not my child's. — Paula Heller Garland

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. — Charles Dickens

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it. — Elizabeth Taylor

Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school. — Thomas J. Stanley

She couldn't let her fears rule her. It was time she grew a backbone and stood up to the monsters. — Lia Davis