John Erskine quote: "Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them."

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
JOHN ERSKINE

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
JOHN ERSKINE

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.
JOHN ERSKINE

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much disciplin...
JOHN ERSKINE

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman ...
JOHN ERSKINE

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman i...
JOHN ERSKINE

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming wom...
JOHN ERSKINE

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing
JOHN ERSKINE

I thought maybe I'd get a couple more, ... but not like this. Everyone said they are addicting. I ju...
JOHN ERSKINE

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information
JOHN ERSKINE

Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from
JOHN ERSKINE

That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey
JOHN ERSKINE

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
JOHN ERSKINE

Even dirty water has a bath
R.W. ERSKINE

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse...
RALPH ERSKINE

The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong; If you go to the...
HENRY ERSKINE

Understanding people’s difficulties and—just as crucial—helping people understand their own di...
KATHRYN ERSKINE

The team that won that pennant was in the minors when the season began, ... The old guard, that came...
CARL ERSKINE

We were all very nostalgic about those guys.
CARL ERSKINE

It may re-open some eyes and ears to the fact that pitchers can and should go nine innings,
CARL ERSKINE

Today's managers don't give the starting pitcher a chance. Maybe this White Sox staff has re-proved ...
CARL ERSKINE

It's a fundraiser, but it's more than that. It's a chance to honor the Special Olympics. A lot of th...
CARL ERSKINE

We only charge $5 because we want families to enjoy the evening. It's a good wholesome evening. Ther...
CARL ERSKINE

Peter O'Malley grew up in the '50s around the clubhouse, so all of us who were playing in his kid da...
CARL ERSKINE

You hear the same thing every year, but that's because it's true, ... In a short series, pitching is...
CARL ERSKINE

Here again, the White Sox have made the World Series and awakened the city. It was always a challeng...
CARL ERSKINE

[Two other books I recommend are] What I Learned from Jackie Robinson ... Voices of Summer.
CARL ERSKINE

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
LORD ERSKINE

That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.
LORD ERSKINE

We wanted to do something that would be a movement toward preventing what happened to Gary from happ...
RON ERSKINE

Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff i...
KATHRYN ERSKINE

This transaction brings together two companies which are growing strongly with highly complementary ...
PETER ERSKINE

The strong growth that we reported across all our businesses in the first quarter was maintained int...
PETER ERSKINE

Our strong momentum is being sustained in both the pre-pay and contract markets, and the customer re...
PETER ERSKINE

Capital expenditure in the full year will be around STG100 million higher than we have previously in...
PETER ERSKINE

It's ... good for customers. They have no overlapping territory, so they will be able to offer our c...
PETER ERSKINE

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar;...
THOMAS ERSKINE

Why would we ever be assembled again after the 50th anniversary passes? ... We'll probably all go ba...
CARL ERSKINE

That's been handed down over the years. That was not uncommon to be said: 'Get me something to work ...
CARL ERSKINE

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
THOMAS ERSKINE

I always hope we'll pack the Paramount. We've had up to 1,000 attend. I'd just like to see the roof ...
CARL ERSKINE

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weakne...
ERSKINE BOWLES

It was bitter and sweet,
CARL ERSKINE

This kid who was always laid back, he's got a few bubbles in him, he said: 'Bring 'em on today, I'll...
CARL ERSKINE

O'Malley had to be the fall guy,
CARL ERSKINE

I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into N...
KATHRYN ERSKINE

Come closer, boys. It will be easier for you.
ERSKINE CHILDERS

The president is not exhausted, I am, ... We're just trying to keep up with him.
ERSKINE BOWLES

I want to see if you have the same sense of joy that I do. Because you will never see someone who is...
ERSKINE BOWLES

We're not moving anywhere right now,
ERSKINE BOWLES

Come January 1, I promise you I will be prepared to accept this public trust,
ERSKINE BOWLES

I can't imagine having another opportunity to have such a positive impact on the lives and livelihoo...
ERSKINE BOWLES

Nobody thought we could balance the federal budget, ... I found that if I just listened hard enough,...
ERSKINE BOWLES

will lay a strong foundation for further action.
ERSKINE BOWLES

The timing couldn't be better for me,
ERSKINE BOWLES

I really believe I've been preparing for this job all my life,
ERSKINE BOWLES

To claim to understand, is a statement that only your imagination could conceive.
R.W. ERSKINE

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.
ERSKINE BOWLES

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I...
ERSKINE BOWLES

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weakne...
ERSKINE BOWLES

It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a po...
ERSKINE BOWLES

I am not a politician.
ERSKINE BOWLES

I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the...
ERSKINE BOWLES

The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death....
ERSKINE BOWLES

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable eco...
ERSKINE BOWLES

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines ...
ERSKINE BOWLES

We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.
ERSKINE BOWLES

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
ERSKINE BOWLES

Finally, it's very good for our people. Because there's no overlapping territories, we can really bu...
PETER ERSKINE

Even though I didn't think I'd like empathy it kind of creeps up on you and makes you feel all warm ...
KATHRYN ERSKINE

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
JANET ERSKINE STUART

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.
JANET ERSKINE STUART

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing
JANET ERSKINE STUART

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.
JANET ERSKINE STUART

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the ...
JANET ERSKINE STUART

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest an...
JANET ERSKINE STUART

In no order of things is adolescence the time of simple life.
JANET ERSKINE STUART

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
JANET ERSKINE STUART

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, ...
JANET ERSKINE STUART

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom
JANET ERSKINE STUART

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND

I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE

I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI

Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER

Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER

Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER

He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON

I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

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