Quotes

Leaving

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.   Marian Wright Edelman Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for civil rights and children’s rights. She is the… Read More ›

Duck

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back.    Ellen Swallow Richards   Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (Swallow; December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental… Read More ›

Possiblity

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.    Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams (11 March… Read More ›

Block

Writer’s block! It doesn’t exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.   Colm Toibin   Colm Tóibín FRSL (born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright… Read More ›