Robert Grosseteste Quotes

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

Robert Grosseteste

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: 1175 - October 9, 1253

Topics

SupportSheepKnowTwoFourLeast

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

Jim Hodges

ThoughtWho Am IBelongStandingWho

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Jeremy Collier

WisdomKnowledgeTimeTeachDays

Nothing is funnier than a true story told by a bitter old black man.

Michael Che

ManStoryBlackTrueNothingOld

I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and The Wizard was 96.

Tony Danza

HomePeopleOld PeopleOldVolunteer

Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.

Tom Hodgkinson

WinterFreedomBirdsEnoughBadCry

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

Roger Sherman

LiveLovedDieMoreHimUs

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

Donal Logue

CarSchoolParentsPresentParent

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

Demetri Martin

WiseNothingEverPrinted

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

William Weld

MoneyProblemRaceNeedCeiling

If you go through my Instagram feed, it's like a flip book of me thinking I'm way more attractive than I am. It's nauseating.

Shane Dawson

I AmMeBookThinkingYouGo

We humans actually need help controlling our impulses - nudges.

Richard Thaler

HelpNeedControllingOurActually

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.

Kyle Chandler

FootballSchoolHigh SchoolShort

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