John Burnside Quotes

We do not need to be heroes to save the world; all we need is humility, a critical view of the commercial and political interests of those who would mislead us into wrongdoing, and a sense of wonder.

John Burnside

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: March 19, 1955

Topics

HumilityWorldViewPoliticalWonder

I believe the American people care a lot about the environment.

Robert Redford

PeopleBelieveCareAmericanAbout

The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school.

Angus Deaton

FatherChildrenTimeManSchool

What Trump has done is tap into a deep-seated anxiety about where the country is headed. There is an anxiety that is real and sincere. Many people feel helpless.

Jeff Fortenberry

PeopleFeelAnxietyCountryDone

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.

John Pomfret

LifeProblemsAmericanDownBring

Go by your own conscience.

Steve Chabot

GoConscienceOwnYour

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Sienna Miller

NatureHuman NatureAchieveHard

What I love about the TED is that it's not, 'Hey, take this check and enjoy.' It's, 'Do something with this, and we'll help you.' I think that's the most beautiful prize I've ever heard of.

JR

LoveBeautifulThinkHelpEnjoyYou

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

Diana Krall

HeartExperienceBrokenSongYou

My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?

Deborah Sampson

OceanMindWildernessThreePlans

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

Anne Stevenson

ThinkPoetLikePainterI Think

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

William Lyon Phelps

NatureNew YorkBibleReadingLearn

It's a little hard to believe 40-year-old men as high school students.

Tim Van Patten

MenSchoolBelieveHigh SchoolHigh

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