#cat

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe! ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#artistic-training #education #liberal-arts #art

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#history #past #education

Play is the highest form of research. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#education #education

I could jump, I was quick, I could catch and all those types of things, but when it came to just flat out speed, that's something I had to work really hard at. ↗

— Troy Brown

#catch #could #flat #flat out #had

I am self-educated from genre books. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#mysteries #education

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#cows #dad #eighth #eighth grade #four

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation. ↗

— Avery Brundage

#education #eyes #fixed #game #goal

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#baseball #big #cathedrals #europe #got

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#catastrophic #damnation #end #except #into

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded. ↗

— Susan George

#around #been #being #children #collapsing