Zebulon B Vance Quotes & Sayings

Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun. — Charles E. Young

I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else. I'm going to succeed as myself. — Margaret Cho

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician. — Jonny Lang

Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down. — Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter. — Keith Donohue

It isn't easy," is easy to say and sometimes I think that the only thing we can do
is say really easy things to each other. — Kris Kidd

You have asked her to marry you, I hope'
'I might have demanded it', he admitted.
'Even better — Julia Quinn

My arm was extended upward pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers. When my hand came down, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist. — Zebulon Baird Vance

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay. — William Wordsworth

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance. — Henry Giroux

Violet, the amethyst, signified love and truth; or passion and suffering. — Anna Brownell Jameson

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. — John Steinbeck