The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.


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We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've ...
NICK ROBINSON
I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we ...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that ...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, ...
JACKIE ROBINSON
I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is ...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
Jason Behr and Amanda Brooks were cool to work with. Jason and I are fast friends to this day.
CRAIG ROBINSON
Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened c...
EDEN ROBINSON
I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been mo...
JACKIE ROBINSON
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results...
KEN ROBINSON
My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, '...
NATE ROBINSON
I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.
ANN ROBINSON
The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each...
KEN ROBINSON
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in ...
KEN ROBINSON
When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas...
JERRY ROBINSON
There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathemat...
ROBERT ROBINSON
My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service.
DAVID ROBINSON
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSON
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accep...
ABRAHAM ROBINSON
How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
JACKIE ROBINSON
You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank Go...
SMOKEY ROBINSON
You look at Superman, the story of an orphan coming to America, keeping his identity secret and even...
JERRY ROBINSON
Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul.
ANNE ROBINSON
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by t...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were...
KEN ROBINSON
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where every...
KEN ROBINSON
Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negro...
JACKIE ROBINSON
Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.
DAVID ROBINSON
If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity...
KEN ROBINSON
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions...
KEN ROBINSON
There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in school...
KEN ROBINSON
Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that cre...
KEN ROBINSON
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
KEN ROBINSON
School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much mo...
KEN ROBINSON
Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking fo...
KEN ROBINSON
You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, i...
KEN ROBINSON
We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species ...
KEN ROBINSON
I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, w...
KEN ROBINSON
Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you'...
KEN ROBINSON
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in ...
KEN ROBINSON
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central c...
KEN ROBINSON
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply sca...
KEN ROBINSON
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingnes...
KEN ROBINSON
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
KEN ROBINSON