Quatrac Quotes & Sayings

Besides my love for horses and cars, I am passionate about making the cheapest vaccines in the world. I started making life-saving drugs when I was 22. — Cyrus S. Poonawalla

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. — Themistocles

We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came. — Stephen Covey

Would anyone remember the story of Godiva if she lowered Coventry's taxes without taking her clothes off? — Daniel Donoghue

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours. — Lester R. Brown

Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. — Graham Greene

If the truth is told how I want to be remembered ... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around. — Henry Rollins

To my mind, it's one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some satisfactory answer to the question, What is this like? Or, What does this remind me of? A comparison is laboriously but successfully introduced. You meet your metaphor, and it's good. — Brad Leithauser

They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats. — Chuck Feeney

Every man who can be a first-rate something
as every man can be who is a man at all
has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing. — J.G. Holland

I tried to copy my parents, as monkeys do, but they were trying to copy me, looking to the child for the energy and hope they had long since lost. — Jeanette Winterson