"Who Knows Only His Own Generation Remains Always a Child"
- Dr. George Norlin, former president of the University of Colorado at Boulder and
based upon a comment by Marcus Tullius Cicero
This quote can be found above the west entrance to the Norlin Library on the CU Boulder campus.
For some background on Dr. Norlin, click here.
Thanks Bob.
"Would comfort you over your tears, yet not all tears are in evil'"
Gandalf, to a part of his fellowship, as he is departing.
Thanks Penguione1.
"One thing about trains, is it doesn't matter about where they're going. What matters is deciding to get on."
Book, Polar Express/ Tom Hanks
"No, I'm not going to ask You to come along, you are all welcome to leave, yet before You go."
"You ever wonder why we're here? Maybe you're all here because this is the only place you fit in. Maybe you're here because you don't have anywhere else to go. Maybe you're all here, because deep down you want to be here. The reason doesn't matter. What matters is that you're here."
Sarge. To a team that was about to abandon a mission.
"I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers--surgeons, engineers, ecnomemists, men who deserve a great following-- and have heard the crowd cheer me instead. I love my profession. I like baseball. I love the fans too, but I think they cheered to loudly and they cheered for the wrong man."
- Babe Ruth to a news reporter.
@TrooperChessOrTC: With your quote from Babe Ruth, we know times have not changed and never will. At least Babe Ruth was popular for real achievements and not merely a celebrity, a person who is famous for merely being famous. So in these times of media not to mention social media celebrities, we have actually declined as a civilization.
@Penguinone1: There are many astute quotes that can be gathered from poets, and this is certainly one.
Thanks for your thoughts on the quotes Bob!
If anyone else here feels as if the would want to describe their thoughts on a quote that has been posted here.
That would be acceptable over a quote.
Have a friend who said something like this.
"It is not the past or the present being reasons as to why people are villainous or righteous, yet for the future. It's how they go about wanting to be remembered."
To follow up on the Babe Ruth quote, we know it's very human to mythologize our heroes; in fact, entire careers can be based on such myths. No film is as profound as John Ford's 1962 classic western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance at poignantly revealing this.
After the facts are revealed by the man whose political career has been based on one iconic incident, an incident the folks still remember no matter what important accomplishments he's made in the meantime, the reporter tears up the story and says, "This is the West, sir, when the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university"
Albert Einstein
Thanks hitthepin and ratingkeepsgoingup for posting.
"What is that you express on your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life"
- Walt Whitman
"And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful."
-Ruskin Bond
"You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference."
- Robert Frost.
"To punish me for my contempt for authority, they made me an authority myself."
- Albert Einstein
"Music is to often enjoyed by people with the sight of only a specific genre type, sometimes a bit more. Yet when it comes down to music, it is the sound of the heart and rifts and holds of emotions eminating from the people playing. It's not so much of what genre is being played, yet more so on what can be felt from the people preforming all they got. Meaningful lyrics, along with greatly portaried emotion is universal to all forms of music. Not in the slightests blocked by genre. Anyhow, hopefuly you understand."
Someone Somewhere.
Also, togepi, you will probably be blocked if you post somerhing nonsensical again here.
Unfortunately, Sven, that doesn't sound like Shakespeare, so I did a little research and came up with Fakespeare: 5 quotes commonly misattributed to Shakespeare at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person. Leo Tolstoy
Many have found great value of wealth from others. That wealth is in the form of knowledge. Whether that knowledge be of the ways of the world or of yourself or of how to deal with others or situations. To be wise of others mistakes, in turn being less likely to make those same mistakes.
Anyhow, generally the best of influential people are remembered and learned from are through their great actions or quotes.
So this forum is all about quotes from anyone, as long as the quotes abide by site rules.
you are welcome to post what you want to other members as long as it is within the following rules,
1. Just end your comment with a quote.
2. No posts over a paragraph
3. No spam
4. Just follow site guide lines
5. Also, please post the origin of the quote.
Alright, gonna start this off.
"To mend someone's sorrows is to profit a friend."
Someone Somewhere.