Famous quotes containing the word providence:
“I dont believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.”
—Max Frisch (19111991)
“A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school and requires a cruel share of time, and the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet, sore with suspicions; knows as much vice as the judge of a police court, and his love of learning is lost in the routine of grammars and books of elements.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.”
—Richard Rumbold (16221685)
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