Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes

A Socrates in every classroom.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 27, 1906 - April 19, 1963

Topics

ClassroomEverySocrates

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Jim Harrison

WishSexWriteOutsideOpenHow

For a decade, Emma-Lee Moss has been steadily making weird, moody, melancholic music under the moniker 'Emmy the Great' that has been referred to as nue-folk, anti-folk, synthpop, and, most of all, literary.

Jenny Zhang

MusicGreatWeirdDecadeMoodyMoss

I think valuing what your body can do over how your body looks is the No. 1 advice I would give to young women about how to have healthy body image. It's not, 'Do these pants fit?' It's 'Can I do a split?'

Maya Hawke

WomenThinkAdviceBodyHealthy

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.

Michael Fassbender

PeopleTearsThinkThoughtTalking

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

Amit Bhatia

PeopleBathroomWriteSome People

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

Townes Van Zandt

FutureLivePastThinkingPresent

The Clinton years were not an economic Nirvana; as chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers during part of this time, I'm all too aware of mistakes and lost opportunities.

Joseph Stiglitz

TimeMistakesOpportunitiesLost

Death row prisoners face enormous challenges in finding lawyers who will assist them.

Anthony Ray Hinton

DeathChallengesFaceFindingWill

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

Peter Davison

YouthForwardInspiredFoundRead

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

Peter James

TimeTravelMeResearchBookNews

Documentaries make a difference.

Paul Watson

Make A DifferenceDifferenceMake

Obviously, if you look at the history of rail in the U.S., it took courageous entrepreneurs to have that vision of connecting the whole nation from east to west.

Shervin Pishevar

VisionHistoryYouLookNationWest

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