I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me...
I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles ...
In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing t...
is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own. — Howard Gardner 120 We imagine a sch...
Gove on the literary canon: “We need to reform English. The great tradition of our literature - Dryden, Pope, Swift, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Austen, Dickens and Hardy - should be at the heart of school life. “Our literature is the best in the world - it is every child’s birthright...
The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver...
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Diane Abbott is the first black woman elected to the House of Commons and a long-serving MP for the Labour Party in the UK. Jojo Rabbit Quotes New Zealand (Film) “Love is the strongest thing in the world.” “Jojo Rabbit” is a comedy-drama film directed by Taika Waititi, which sat...
There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything. Rhonda Byrne The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise. Cr...
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. - Bible | The Bible Quotes Add to Favorite List The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. - Bible | The Bible Quotes Ad...