Quotes

  • We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
  • Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller
  • The principal goal of education is to create people who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. – Jean Piaget
  • I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. – Galileo Galilei
  • You let that boy boogie-woogie [play that guitar]. It’s in him and it’s got to come out. – John Lee Hooker’s lyrics about his dad talking with his mother.
  • We have spent the prime of our lives in procuring for young men the precious blessing of liberty. Let them spend theirs in showing that liberty is the great parent of science and virtue. – Thomas Jefferson