"When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution."

-- Niall Ferguson

#School Quotes #Oxford Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.”

Source : "I just want the best for my kids" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.
“Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!”
“If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.”

Source : "This Inspiring, Blind Young Man Is Running the NYC Marathon to Save Lives" by Sibylle Eschapasse, www.theepochtimes.com. October 29, 2015.
“There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.”

Source : Said to Jacques Mercanton on the structure of Ulysses. "James Joyce: The Critical Heritage". Book by Robert H. Deming, p. 22, 1997.
“Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton
“I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?”
“I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.”
“I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.”

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