DeWitt Clinton Quotes

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

DeWitt Clinton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 2, 1769 - February 11, 1828

Topics

KnowledgePowerShadowSpaceWealth

I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all the novels you'll encounter.'

Jill McCorkle

LiveEyesWalkEnoughLongYou

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

John Green

FamilyRomanticStrugglePolitics

Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn't wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure?

Matthew Reilly

ChildMeAnimalsZooAlwaysHappen

I don't need faith.

Maurice Sendak

FaithNeed

There's this narrative that is entrenched in some of the professions that there's this mysterious thing called 'socioeconomic status' that is immutably correlated with health. And it isn't.

Angus Deaton

HealthMysteriousStatusNarrative

We all control our careers. Those choices that you make are so critical.

Angela Ahrendts

ControlChoicesYouCriticalOur

My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

Merry Clayton

FamilyFatherBlueBlackHePart

Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.

Stephen Rodrick

BeautyBaseballGameEleganceWay

When I went to AI New England in Boston, I used to do my mixtapes, and honestly, if you look back at any of my mixtapes, every single mixtape tells a story.

Statik Selektah

StoryYouLookBackNewBoston

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Rob Lowe

SuccessAttentionAlwaysReminisce

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

David Suzuki

NatureLiveTechnologyControlWorld

The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.

Colm Wilkinson

PatienceGreatPeopleStrongAlways

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