Ladressa Quotes & Sayings

I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence. — Luther Burbank

Didn't they like you? Didn't they, like you, need a heart that was a book with no last page? Turn the leaves. — Jeanette Winterson

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway. — Myles Horton

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it. — Bob Thaves

Nothing comes of so many things, if you have patience. — Joyce Carol Oates

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know. — Mark Twain