#owe

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#education #just #laws #love #men

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. ↗

— Sai Baba

#back #becomes #built #foundations #ground

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence. ↗

— Mary Astell

#greatest #insolence #most #people #power

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature. ↗

— David Attenborough

#created #credit #frequently #get #give

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#fully #gift #go #human #possible

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#fools #makes #nature #only #owe

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. ↗

— John James Audubon

#children #fathers #given #his #knows

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life. ↗

— John James Audubon

#care #caught #charge #commanded #fever

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise. ↗

— John James Audubon

#constantly #deck #exercise #forcing #however

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#aspiration #aspires #compares #estimates #higher