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Ten Random Quotes

"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform."
Edward Young

"Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique."
Annie Gottlieb

"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."
Robert Frost

"Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children."
Mark Sanford

"Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self."
John Milton

"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Burglars, judging by our statistics, define opportunity as an unoccupied, unlocked house stocked with portable television sets."
Gerald Cvetko

"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
Elizabeth Taylor

"I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me."
Mario Cuomo

"Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be..."
John Maynard Keynes

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