Nowogrodzka Club Quotes & Sayings

I went to sleep dreaming of Malawi, and all the things made possible when your dreams are powered by your heart. — William Kamkwamba

As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing. — Mark Helprin

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made. — Brian Selznick

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming. — Pietro Metastasio

Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Taxes are a penalty on progress. — James Cook

Only the past is real. — Frank Lentricchia

Don't make the mistake of putting your heart near his hand. — Stephen King

Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger. — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it. — Charles Dickens

I try to sit down at night before they go to bed and read the Bible with them and do little devotionals and pray with them. I think if you instill it in them when they are young, they'll remember when they grow up. I raise them in church. When the doors are open, I want to be there. My kids love to go. So does my wife. — Andy Pettitte