Robert Burns Quotes

I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

Robert Burns

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796

Topics

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My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father's face what it meant that I had done this.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LifeFatherDayRegretFaceDeep

I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that is savagely unfair.

Andrea Dworkin

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I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.

Matt Groening

DailyThinkNewspaperWayOutGoing

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

Tom Chatfield

WorldDigitalBoundariesIndividual

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

Rory Cochrane

RegretDoneThingsDidThose

For a long time, it seemed as if podcasting was a male realm, but no longer. Sure, there are lots of men doing podcasts, but women are voicing a lot of the form's biggest hits. 'Serial,' the podcast that made podcasts a phenomenon, was narrated by a woman.

Michelle Dean

WomenTimeMenWomanDoingLong

I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.

Lukas Forchhammer

GoodSchoolSingingBelieveSinger

We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.

Jon Corzine

ParentsYouthFreeAlcoholBehavior

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Diane Ackerman

LifeWantMy OwnOwnPassenger

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

Christina Aguilera

FutureDaughterGoThroughGoing

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

Allison Williams

LookingYouOutAwkwardStarted

I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair.

Alice Waters

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