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Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
View quotes by Emma Goldman

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
View quotes by L P Hartley

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.
View quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

It is the inalienable right of every Englishman to pronounce foreign words exactly as he pleases.
View quotes by Winston Churchill

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed
View quotes by Rupert Brooke

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. (Toast at Norfolk, Virginia, 1816)
View quotes by Stephen Decatur

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it (Thunder on the Left)
View quotes by Christopher Morley

The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole.
View quotes by Albert Pike

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
View quotes by Jesse Jackson

States are now being forced to join an international beauty contest to compete for foreign investment.
View quotes by Zwelinzima Vavi

President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with the president and smiled warmly as he mispronounced their names.
View quotes by Tina Fey

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
View quotes by Virginia Woolf

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
View quotes by Howard Zinn

The greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy.
View quotes by Ramsey Clark

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
View quotes by Lyndon Johnson

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
View quotes by Judith Martin

He was the greatest Parliamentarian of his generation and a very fine foreign secretary. [on Robin Cook]
View quotes by Jack Straw

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
View quotes by Irving Kristol

We went to watch a show - Billy Joel. Half of the foreign lads weren't quite sure who Billy Joel was, but I enjoyed it anyway. For the Charlton game I'll really punish them - I'll take them to see Mamma Mia.
View quotes by Harry Redknapp

Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.
View quotes by Giuseppe Mazzini



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