"I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time."

-- Sam Houston

#Father Quotes #School Quotes #Eight Quotes

“It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.”
“By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.”
“Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.”
“I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.”
“Elena?" "Yes, unless Nick found a woman in the forest, which I suppose wouldn't be too surprising.”
“Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing”
“Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom.”

Source : "In Defence of Politics".
“A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.”

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