Memorable Quotes

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and Meaningful.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

It takes a village to raise a child.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.