Jackie Peyton Quotes & Sayings

If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- From a letter to Robert Hooke dated February 5th, 1676.
The metaphor was first recorded in 1159 by John of Salisbury and attributed to Bernard of Chartres:
Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea. — Isaac Newton

I can still remember Pete Rose, on the top step of the dugout screaming, Fuck you, Shakespeare. — Jim Bouton

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders. — Denis Diderot

How families deal with loss, everyone has their own process. — Dwayne Johnson

He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in movies. But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know. — Sarah Dessen

People have to stop employing illegal immigrants. — Hillary Clinton

Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do our best not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And in that faith let us march toward the clean world our hands can make. — Stephen Vincent Benet

Mothers are the diamonds that God gave us when we were born — Michelle Geaney

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. — Fred Allen

It's simple. Listen to your heart. With everything you do, listen to your heart. If your heart feels right, you can't go wrong. — Jim Devitt

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part. — Anne Lamott

Hospitality is the practice that keeps the church from becoming a club, a members-only society. — Diana Butler Bass

Treat people well on your way up and they'll treat you well on your way down. — Robin Sharma