Melanie Thernstrom famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

  • Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

  • Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing

  • The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

  • I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

  • My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

  • Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

  • Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

  • In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

  • Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.