Research Participation Quotes & Sayings

My major influence was my ten years older sister. — Willa Ford

The collective benefits of higher education will not be asserted unless the public can be engaged in defining them. A student's future returns on his or her personal investment of time and money will seem more critical than the public benefits to be derived from ensuring that all students become people of character as well as of competence. An institution's prowess in potentially lucrative lines of scientific research will seem more essential to its mission than its participation in the development of an aesthetically engaged and broadly humane society. Unless there is public discussion that can help support the balancing of public and private priorities, colleges and universities will dance only to the private ambitions that ensure continuing high levels of enrollment and high ratings in the various surveys of satisfaction that give institutions a boost in national rankings. — Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

That night the first frost of autumn struck Tucker's Grove. It crept up from the ground, snaring the fragile roots of plants. It emerged from the air, etching its signature on window-panes. A portent. The year was nearing its end. Things would die soon. — Kevin J. Anderson

At last everything was falling into place. Falling into love. — Susan Abulhawa

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known. — Frederick Reines

The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past. — John Welch

Nothing is less trustworthy than a woman's tears. — Wataru Watari

Fights are part of life, far better to learn to live with them. — Marian Keyes

Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth. — Evelyn Underhill

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor. — Rose McIver

To create anything ... is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. — Tom Bissell

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in. — Larry Bird

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride. — Elizabeth Taylor