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Ezra Cornell Quotes

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: January 11, 1807 - December 9, 1874

Topics

Trees Apple Yesterday Want Hill Get

Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body. Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.

Walk Birds Forward Feet Body Run

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

Robert M. Pirsig

Good You Lying Talk Always Zen

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Heaven Deeds Star Far Souls Another

A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.

Children Best Parents Immigrants Who

There was a time when we were in a van and handing out the CDs at Warped Tour. We had a two-song EP that we were just handing out for free just to promote ourselves. That was on the 'Waking the Fallen' record, and we were just going around and handing out the CDs and stuff like that.

Time Free Out Going Just Stuff

I think if you look at most successful people, if you ask most of them, their biggest influence was their dad.

People Influence Think You Look Ask

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

Age America Out Second Gilded Sept

Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that.

Wife Right Person Grow Farm You

Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.

Government Safety First Order Well

What I don't like about Washington, if we say one syllable or one sentence, or this guy said something bad about me, then, all of a sudden, they have to be my mortal enemy. I don't think that's how it works in American business.

Anthony Scaramucci

Business Me Think American Bad Said

Black Lives Matter started from a post that I put on Facebook after the acquittal of George Zimmerman. I woke up in the middle of the night sobbing, just trying to process what had happened and wanting to find community around being in a lot of grief and having a lot of rage.

Community Grief Night Black Process

The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.

Life Happy Secret Successful Keep

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