Famous quotes containing the words thomas jefferson, thomas, jefferson, haitian, early and/or years:
“There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“When the morning was waking over the war
He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, its probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)