Robert Hass Quotes

You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.

Robert Hass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 1, 1941

Topics

EducationEnvironmentalYouKindSee

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Johann G. Seume

ManCircumstancesOutOnlyHeHis

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Jessamyn West

SuccessTimeWomanSoulManMy Soul

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

John Major

GoodBestBritishPressLikeVery

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

Stanley Hauerwas

FriendsYouLivedBooksWhoSome

Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United States took in international goods worth $1.73 trillion, or eighty times the value of all U.S. trade in 1960.

Rose George

SeaValueWorthGrowingTradeStill

I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture.

Ruth Bernhard

FeelingSculptureNaturalHad

I would rather have a career where I improve year after year than go to the top and then decline. There are a lot of strikers that reached the top before 25, but after 25, they went down.

Romelu Lukaku

YearCareerDownGoTopImprove

My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.

Corey Hawkins

FatherMotherMyselfPoliceTrouble

The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private prisons.

Clint Smith

PeopleColorBlackPrisonOver

There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK weekend, and a little first-grader stood up, and he said, 'I can explain segregation,' and proceeded to explain all the scenes from 'Hidden Figures.' And I died because that's everything.

Allison Schroeder

TeacherMeWeekendI CanSaidShe

I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M.

Alice Sebold

WorkMorningBrainStartWake UpUp

O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are coming upon you! If you were to judge as I do, you would not easily put your neck under a foreign yoke.

William Wallace

JudgeYouFairComingNeckAware

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