Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 20, 1743 - March 9, 1825

Topics

FamilyFriendFatherWomenKnowledge

Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.

Joe Kaeser

PastForwardLookNeedOur

As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.

John Gokongwei

GoalsMyselfSchoolDriveAchieve

It's not always caving to pressure: Sometimes criticism hits close to home; sometimes criticism changes our minds about something we've put out into the world.

Andrew Shaffer

HomeWorldCriticismPressureMinds

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

John Lancaster Spalding

MemoryHellParadiseEscapeMay

This is about black people selling out other black people.

John Mellencamp

PeopleBlackSellingOutAbout

I've had a fantastic life so far; I'm lucky. I'd like the great role that changes everything, but at the moment, what's important is being happy in myself.

Max Beesley

LifeGreatMyselfMomentHappy

I'm one of those performers who has done just about everything except juggle, and I'm working on that.

Rita Moreno

DoneEverythingWorkingJustWho

Writing will remain a passion project.

Rory Kinnear

PassionWritingWillProjectRemain

I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.

Martina Hingis

VictoryThinkThreeOpenPointLow

During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.'

Monica Crowley

PatriotismDriveYouSeeingWithout

Janet Landis came to work in my group in the summer of 1957 when our first bubble-chamber was churning out its earliest pictures.

Luis Walter Alvarez

WorkPicturesSummerGroupFirst

For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude so thoroughly that any American father whose son tells him he wants to write poetry will be embarrassed.

Miller Williams

FatherAttitudeSonPoetryDesert

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