Skews Younger Quotes & Sayings

It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw. — Vannevar Bush

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience ... was disparaged. — Henry Giroux

Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot. — Steve Post

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit. — Joseph Wood Krutch

I felt like a champion because I was figuring shit out. I was a doer and a getter-doner, and it was okay to be identified by the neighbors as the little lady who had a dump truck of manure delivered, a load that made the entire neighborhood smell like a dairy barn for weeks. — Dee Williams

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. — Blaise Pascal

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. — Elizabeth Taylor

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad. — Tom Stoppard

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow. — Jane Hirshfield

My friend," said the orator to him, "do you believe the Pope to be the Anti-Christ?"
"I have not heard it," answered Candide; "but whether he be, or whether he not, I want bread. — Voltaire

So that was Chris and her reading and schooling, two Chrisses there were that fought for her heart and tormented her. You hated the land and the coarse speak of the folk and learning was brave and fine one day; and the next you'd waken with the peewits crying across the hills, deep and deep, crying in the heart of you and the smell of the earth in your face, almost you'd cry for that, the beauty of it and the sweetness of the Scottish land and skies. — Lewis Grassic Gibbon

In his eyes I glimpse the loneliness, the longing for a life that should have been, and the glimmer of the man he wants to be underneath the man he thinks he has to be. — Pierce Brown

Feral hamsters are not pets. They mean business. — David Foster Wallace