Quotes
Quotes - Cook
I love it, I love it, and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When memory plays an old tune on the heart!
Better build schoolrooms for "the boy"
Than cells and gibbets for "the man."
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman."
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings. - "The Washington Post", June 13, 1978.
Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!
Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.
The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay, We must worship its light though it is not our own, For liberty burst in its ray. Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard By a freeman, and thrill not his breast? Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word, As a Bethlehem Star of the West?
