Rhapsodies For Young Quotes & Sayings

I am convinced that what has the greatest meaning for us is what we uncover for ourselves. — Elizabeth O'Connor

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. — Luther Burbank

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it. — David Sylvian

A decade ago, Australian philosopher and professor of sustainability Glenn Albrecht set out to coin a term to capture the particular form of psychological distress that set in when the homelands that we love and from which we take comfort are radically altered by extraction and industrialization, rendering them alienating and unfamiliar. He settled on 'solastalgia,' with it's evocations of solace, destruction, and pain, and defined the new word to mean, 'the homesickness you have when you are still at home. — Naomi Klein

You know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago — Dana Carvey

Always has woman crouched close to earth like a partridge hen mothering her young; always has my wantonness of roving led me out on the shining ways; and always have my star paths returned me to her, the figure everlasting, the woman, the one woman, for whose arms I had such need that clasped in them I have forgotten the stars.
For her I accomplished Odysseys scaled mountains crossed deserts; for her I led the hunt and was forward in battle; and for her end' to her I sang my songs of the things I had done. All ecstasies of life and rhapsodies of delight have been mine because of her. And here, at the end, I can say that I have known no sweeter, deeper madness of being than to drown in the fragrant glory and forgetfulness of her hair. — Jack London

I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me. — Rory McIlroy

At least I died trying. And I won.I never gave them away. I never hurt them. I did my best to find them. I tried to keep my promise ... I die for them. — Stephenie Meyer

As for myself, I have found my perfect pattern in Jesus, who said, "The Father has not left Me
alone, for I always do those things that please Him." I am no longer motivated by personal ambition.
I have discovered a sweeter, purer motive: simply to please my Father. — Derek Prince

I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films. — Seth Shostak

Agile retrospectives give the power to the team, where it belongs! — Ben Linders

Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream. — Robert Brustein

History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made. — Janet Flanner

Sojourner [Truth]'s life exemplifies the process that occurs within ourselves as we grow to understand that we hold the authority to shape our own lives. This inner authority came when she embraced all of herself, which enabled her to speak from an authentic voice. — Helen LaKelly Hunt