Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1799 - March 4, 1888

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My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.

Andrew Lincoln

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Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Maya Lin

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Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.

John McCain

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It's always nice to come home and work in Australia with friends I've known since I started.

Alyssa Sutherland

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I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon... I literally block out Wednesday-Thursday-Friday - I more or less disappear.

Stephan Pastis

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We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

Mike Lowry

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I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate.

Michelle Dockery

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I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.'

Lisa Papademetriou

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A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

William Lyon Phelps

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A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better.

Paul Theroux

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Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.

Marketa Irglova

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Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

Lionel Shriver

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