#vere

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#around #banner #classroom #discovered #earliest

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#cheerful #heart #hopeful #keep #kindly

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#discovered #features #i #nothing #passage

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#direction #doubt #element #great #her

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#brought #discovered #every #light #spirit

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it. ↗

— Henry A. Wise

#authority #civil #civil liberty #conflict #defend

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#attached #being #berlin #children #concerned

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#beer #cheaper #connected #except #food

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost. ↗

— Julien Benda

#arts #been #discovered #doubtful #lost

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

#computing #discovered #good #i #interfaces