Famous quotes containing the words private, higher and/or education:
“stop the darkness and its amputations
and find the real McCoy
in the private holiness
of my hands.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I remain just one thing, and one thing only—and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)
“Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influence which flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)