"I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton."

-- Boris Johnson

#School Quotes #Eton Quotes

“I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference.”
“Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.”

Source : "The portable Emerson".
“My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.”
“It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.”
“My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.”
“The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National and Local Antiquities. Geology gratifies a larger taste of this kind; it inquires into what may appropriately be termed the Antiquities of the Globe itself, and collects and deciphers what may be considered as the monuments and medals of its remoter eras.”

Source : William Buckland (1820). “Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology”, p.6
“I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.”
“Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.”

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