Frederick Tennyson Quotes

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

Frederick Tennyson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: 1807 - 1898

Topics

LiveThoughtTongueStoneProfit

Whenever someone wants to say something to a whole mass of people by breaking into song, there's probably something wrong with them.

Robert Lopez

PeopleSongSomeoneWrongSayWhole

I don't like teaching, because it's so repetitive - especially the beginning of class, which is always more or less the same and has to be carefully done. It's tedious. But I know it's necessary for dancers to keep working on technique.

Merce Cunningham

BeginningKnowDoneClassMoreSame

I want to do more R&B, more reggae, everything.

Statik Selektah

WantMoreEverythingReggae

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

Tom Rachman

HopeExperienceCreativeEnvironment

Violence was very much a part of my mother's upbringing - a little less so with my father's, but my father was an angry man when he was young. He was angry and frustrated and had no idea how to channel anger.

Rodney Crowell

FatherMotherManAngerAngryYoung

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

Michelangelo

MindArtistWhiteHandImageWithin

The unknown is always interesting.

Michael Ovitz

InterestingUnknownAlways

There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.

Lucretia Mott

WomanManSocietyTrueNothingWell

The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought a realization of the many problems that surrounded the use of rockets for space flight.

Donald A. Wollheim

SpaceProblemsBackResultsFlight

It's not easy to teach a child how to win.

Dikembe Mutombo

ChildWinEasyTeachHow

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

Chris Jordan

FutureResponsibilityPeopleLegacy

History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo, 1914; the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, 1938. But equally relevant might be the tragically meaningless guarantees Britain extended to Poland in 1939.

Alistair Horne

HistoryReachNeverMeaningless

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