Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, people, won and/or academy:
“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18411935)
“Lovers, forget your love,
And list to the love of these,
She a window flower,
And he a winter breeze.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“What people do who go into politics I cant think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Dule and wae for the order sent our lads to the Border;
The English, for ance, by guile won the day:
The Flowers of the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost,
The prime o our land, are cauld in the clay.”
—Jean Elliot (17271805)
“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)