Newsroom Founding Fathers Quotes & Sayings

You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place. — Daisy Fuentes

So, in the case of trees, being old doesn't mean being weak, bowed, and fragile. Quite the opposite, it means being full of energy and highly productive. This means elders are markedly more productive than young whippersnappers, and when it comes to climate change, they are important allies for human beings. — Peter Wohlleben

The man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him. — Flannery O'Connor

Julia Bliss Flaherty, as Ivy now realized, was of the same stripe. Pinned down and obliged to justify herself, she would explain her actions in terms of some altruistic plan. And she might even believe it. But it wasn't that at all. She was like Ivy's grandmother. If you paid fealty to her, she would favor you, and your reputation and power would grow among all the others who did likewise. — Neal Stephenson

But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn't really seem the stuff of 'Harry Potter'. — David Heyman

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. — Jimmy Carter

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is. — John Engler

Now, she had to be strong enough to look weak. — Laini Taylor