Legon University Quotes & Sayings

Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother. — Francois Rabelais

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker. — Mercedes McCambridge

It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet. — Stacy Aumonier

Suffering from depression? Just exercise a lot, socialize more, eat better, and do all the other things depression prevents you from doing. — Unknown

Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude. — John Calvin

[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered. — Marlene Dietrich

The art of reading, as of learning, is this: ... to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential. — Adolf Hitler

It's bad enough to love someone who don't love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I'm getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I don't know what will happen to me. - Polly — Louisa May Alcott

The castle of Enysfarne was a dark and towering force that hovered over what was left of my innocence. It contained my destiny, of that I had no doubt whatsoever; a fate that threatened to wipe the blush off my face and turn me into the man my father always wanted me to be ... Veronica Somerset, Dragonfly. — Charles A. Cornell

It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath. see 1 Samuel 17. — Russell M. Nelson

It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen. — Graham Steele