Emma Willard Quotes

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?

Emma Willard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 23, 1787 - April 15, 1870

Topics

EducationBeginningDisappointment

Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.

John Gregory Dunne

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For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

Sonny Rollins

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I know how bad bullying can hurt. I was bullied when I was a kid.

Tracy Morgan

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I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.

Travis Barker

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I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.

Toni Braxton

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When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won.

Tom Rath

WorkFriendBestPeopleBest Friend

The Dumas memoirs - which I also discovered when I was a kid - had a big impact on me.

Tom Reiss

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I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

Mary Pierce

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I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it.

Jon Krakauer

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I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

Doug Liman

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My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

David Suzuki

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