FastSaying

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.


Robert MacNeil

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality o...
ROBERT MACNEIL Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words ...
JAMES B. CONANT Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words ...
JAMES BRYANT CONANT Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words ...
JAMES BRYANT CONANT Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so dow...
BRIAN SETZER 'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists...
DAMIEN HIRST Yes, a person can accept your apology and forgive you for what you’ve said, but they will never fo...
STEPHANIE LAHART There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than oth...
DAVID WALLIAMS I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings ...
KIM KI-DUK The quality of thoughts depends not on mind or heart, but on the humane words deeply embedded with c...
ANUJ SOMANY With a creature, there's no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact...
JAMIE WYETH We can put a stake through the heart of Islamic State as an army. We can put a stake through the hea...
DAVID PETRAEUS Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child o...
BERNIE SIEGEL the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teac...
TEMPLE GRANDIN Words of love are wonderful when they are spoken with genuine purpose and from the heart.
LEAH DANCEL What's interesting is that some of the things I'm interested in talking about is a story whi...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Heart makes a crackling, hissed but demanding tone each time it breaks with pain, listen to that att...
ANUJ SOMANY If I were to reduce all my feelings and their painful conflicts to a single name, I can think of no ...
HERMANN HESSE In everyday life, a blessed act of saying ‘hello, a smile, word of encouragement…’ can uplift ...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
FRANK OCEAN I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and usefu...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - ...
WAYNE DYER Garbage. It's a natural quality of huskiness in the midrange of my voice that I call 'garbag...
CASEY KASEM If the thought is not from a person's soul, it can never motivate, inspire, empower and uplift the b...
ANUJ SOMANY Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our...
BRIAN SUTTON-SMITH Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
BETTY SMITH There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up ...
STEVE BUSCEMI Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the wo...
ANNE HATHAWAY When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of yo...
TONY DITERLIZZI Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's n...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the re...
YANN MARTEL Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.
HILLARY CLINTON There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to ...
THOMAS WOLFE There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to ev...
THOMAS WOLFE There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to ev...
TOM WOLFE Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality;...
MARY MACLANE And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to ...
RAINN WILSON Everyday holds new magic..& sometimes that's all we need. A little magic & some hope; to free our sp...
TEGAN GENEVIEVE JONES As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day afte...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
CASS MCCOMBS We gotta start somewhere. The Corsica River is a good place to start. We clean up that treatment pla...
LARRY SIMNS And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make ...
KATE DICAMILLO Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his o...
JOHN CALVIN Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He...
BORIS KODJOE It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator....
ANGELA CARTER كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think...
ALICE HOFFMAN Say you can't put one foot in front of the other, you punch like a child, and you're not fle...
CHAD STAHELSKI Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.
PATSY KENSIT Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires s...
SIMON SINEK I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I...
NATHANIEL RICH Some parents, even really good parents, don't think to start that soon. During the Week of the Young...
ALICE MCGREW Many things are spoken out loud, but be careful of those words that you whisper to yourself. You hav...
AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilit...
KAI BIRD Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see the...
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN "Kindness is a language in which words need not be spoken, caring acts can be felt and understood by...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind alon...
JACOB BOEHME When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind alon...
JACOB BOEHME The wind blew the words through my mind like the heart vibrates outside of time." ~ Rene Remington
RENE REMINGTON Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care.
KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND Any perception can connect us to reality properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, ...
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA In some measure, stimuli from the outside, especially when they are printed or spoken words, evoke s...
WALTER LIPPMANN I don't think it's fair that we cannot guarantee every child in this country a great educati...
CAMPBELL BROWN One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart...
JOHN DEWEY The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows
STEPHEN KING The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know ...
LAWRENCE JACKSON A grandparent can be simply affirming. A grandparent has been there, done that child-raising stuff, ...
JEWELL PARKER RHODES A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
HARVEY FIERSTEIN There is some math involved. Words have certain patterns and proportions and a lot of it is learning...
DAVID QUARFOOT She came with some ideas - and some magic,
JOHN GALLIANO Whenever I speak in English the words comes through my mind and contains logic but whenever I speak ...
OJAS VISHWAKARMA The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making s...
MICHAEL GOVE The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased...
ANNIE DILLARD He?s spoken individually to some of our people and he?s civil in tone. But we?re not part of this pr...
BROCK EVANS Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b...
FRANCINE PASCAL Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN She believed in magic—the magic of places, the magic of people, the magic of coincidences, serendi...
JAMIE LE FAY I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the...
SARAH FIELDING No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON What makes a child a good fit is a desire to be in control of his or her time, and parents who can t...
MIMSY SADOFSKY [B]y taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far...
GILBERT HIGHET If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the min...
ANDRAE CROUCH I am never out there just jogging for the heck of it. I never do that. I start to run with a goal in...
DREW CAREY In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted a...
EZEKIEL EMANUEL People expect more today. Parents are getting ready to invest their most precious asset - their chil...
JEFFREY KIMPTON There was a certain amount of romantic sentiment that comes through some of the letters
CLAUDE CLEGG Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Ho...
DAVID GEMMELL Music gives strength to the soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every coil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with ...
MARTIN FRAQUHAR TUPPER Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child&...
RICHARD CORLISS As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling wi...
BILL MARIS There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of child...
WILLIAM OSLER Some of our best episodes of 'Buffy' were written over a weekend. You can really get in touc...
DREW GODDARD We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

More Robert MacNeil

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality o...
ROBERT MACNEIL Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am n...
ROBERT MACNEIL I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Brit...
ROBERT MACNEIL We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three mon...
ROBERT MACNEIL Given the dozens of channels now that are doing something called news, from the serious to the comic...
ROBERT MACNEIL [Television] has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the wo...
ROBERT MACNEIL It was a way to do something that seemed to be needed journalistically and yet was different from wh...
ROBERT MACNEIL Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the m...
ROBERT MACNEIL The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
ROBERT MACNEIL I never wanted to be a pundit.
ROBERT MACNEIL I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to con...
ROBERT MACNEIL But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had...
ROBERT MACNEIL And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.
ROBERT MACNEIL Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.
ROBERT MACNEIL After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and p...
ROBERT MACNEIL Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the worl...
ROBERT MACNEIL I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
ROBERT MACNEIL You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy...
ROBERT MACNEIL I don't think it was the pressure of the contract or anything else. I really think it was the physic...
AL MACNEIL If we're competitive, we have great fans here. Calgary is a wealthy city, and Alberta is a wealthy p...
AL MACNEIL A wine steward's job is to know about their list. It makes no sense not to take advantage of that ex...
KAREN MACNEIL A wine steward's job is to know about their list, ... It makes no sense not to take advantage of tha...
KAREN MACNEIL If you're just looking for a group of easy wines to drink (in the) summer, should you pay $30 a bott...
KAREN MACNEIL It is not true that there is a linear relationship between price and quality. A higher price doesn't...
KAREN MACNEIL People get it immediately. It's a fun way of remembering.
KAREN MACNEIL Wine is like music, ... If you're not listening, it doesn't matter what's playing on the stereo.
KAREN MACNEIL There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.
KAREN MACNEIL [For instance:] You could say one wine is like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz while another is like the...
KAREN MACNEIL I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
ROBERT BENCHLEY In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. A...
ROBERT ZEMECKIS A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins...
ROBERT FROST Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you r...
ROBERT WINSTON I was always handsome under all the fat.
ROBERT ILER In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into d...
ROBERT HASS Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over ti...
ROBERT HERJAVEC Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to ...
ROBERT POZEN The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations th...
ROBERT SMITHSON I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the ...
ROBERT KNEPPER Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per...
ROBERT HALF In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit...
ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal...
ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte...
ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,...
ROBERT KENNEDY A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can...
ROBERT KENNEDY If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedo...
ROBERT KENNEDY Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and...
ROBERT KENNEDY To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and min...
ROBERT KENNEDY I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in g...
ROBERT KENNEDY Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troub...
ROBERT KENNEDY American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our cult...
ROBERT KENNEDY Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been ou...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the be...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural co...
ROBERT KENNEDY The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana...
ROBERT KENNEDY Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty bu...
ROBERT KENNEDY I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i...
ROBERT KENNEDY The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
ROBERT KENNEDY Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in...
ROBERT KENNEDY I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because...
ROBERT KENNEDY When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them s...
ROBERT KENNEDY Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc...
ROBERT KENNEDY The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Commu...
ROBERT KENNEDY There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousin...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour...
ROBERT KENNEDY Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
ROBERT KENNEDY The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some...
ROBERT KENNEDY We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t...
ROBERT KENNEDY From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o...
ROBERT KENNEDY Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste...
ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di...
ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p...
ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th...
ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...
ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan...
ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes...
ROBERT KRAFT Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
ROBERT KRAFT We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
ROBERT MUGABE We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
ROBERT MUGABE In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East ...
ROBERT MUGABE Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
ROBERT MUGABE If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth ...
ROBERT MUGABE Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have...
ROBERT MUGABE Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.
ROBERT MUGABE Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, wri...
ROBERT KYNCL The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. T...
ROBERT KENNEDY If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financia...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co...
ROBERT KENNEDY French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the pro...
ROBERT MUGABE I really don't hold grudges. I mean, I remember everything, but I move on.
ROBERT KRAFT To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
ROBERT BYRD And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The ...
ROBERT BYRD This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
ROBERT BYRD It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack....
ROBERT BYRD The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue th...
ROBERT BYRD It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of th...
ROBERT BYRD Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
ROBERT BYRD Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the wo...
ROBERT BYRD I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times o...
ROBERT BYRD Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of havi...
ROBERT BYRD I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the...
ROBERT BYRD That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority ...
ROBERT BYRD One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'...
ROBERT BYRD Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, ...
ROBERT BYRD We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I b...
ROBERT CARO If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or gov...
ROBERT KURSON I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That d...
ROBERT FULGHUM I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of an...
ROBERT SCOBLE Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
ROBERT TROUT Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of ...
ROBERT COLLIER I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.
ROBERT WEBB Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ...
ROBERT FROST We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
ROBERT FROST Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
ROBERT FROST I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
ROBERT FROST College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
ROBERT FROST If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had...
ROBERT FROST Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
ROBERT FROST Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
ROBERT FROST I always entertain great hopes.
ROBERT FROST A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon...
ROBERT FROST I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
ROBERT FROST You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
ROBERT FROST The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not...
ROBERT FROST The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
ROBERT FROST Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
ROBERT FROST The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
ROBERT FROST Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
ROBERT FROST The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diff...
ROBERT FROST They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
ROBERT FROST What we live by we die by.
ROBERT FROST By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...
ROBERT FROST I go to school the youth to learn the future.
ROBERT FROST Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind ska...
ROBERT FROST The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w...
ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
ROBERT FROST And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written o...
ROBERT FROST If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
ROBERT FROST Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. ...
ROBERT FROST The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
ROBERT FROST Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
ROBERT FROST A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
ROBERT FROST The only certain freedom's in departure.
ROBERT FROST Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
ROBERT DELAUNAY It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
ROBERT HUGHES For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, an...
ROBERT LORENZ I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK