Quotes About Progress

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. –Harold Kushner

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. Characters become more fully developed and the meaning of earlier incidents begins to become clear. And when we to the end, there is a satisfying sense of completeness to it.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

Harold MacMillan

Deberíamos usar el pasado como trampolín y no como sofá.

The earth's about five million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

I think I'll be moving on tomorrow," she said. "What for? Got anything better to do?" She shook her head. "No. But this isn't my bag. You know that. These cars don't make any noise." "Someday all cars won't make noise," he said.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness--it's growth--mental, financial, you name it.

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

Para mim, a vida é como um bom livro. Quanto mais avançamos nele, mais sentido começa a fazer.

You are not a prisoner of your past; you are the architect of your future.

In America, the advent of the modern serial killer coincided absolutely with the coming of the automobile.

In the years immediately following the end of the Great War, approximately fifty thousand one-room schools were replaced with these "fine upstanding structures—schools that in every way compare[d] with big-city institutions." By 1922, there were roughly "12,000 of this new type of school in the United States." Indiana alone had more than one thousand; Ohio, Iowa, and Minnesota more than nine hundred, four hundred, and three hundred, respectively.6

Those on the other side of the debate argued forcefully that consolidated schools—with their advanced curriculums, professionally trained teachers, and classes extending through high school—were the only means of affording farm children the kind of educational opportunities available to their urban counterparts. In the end, after two years of bitter struggle, the proponents of consolidation prevailed in Bath when the township voted to fund a new school.10

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

We ought to be free to meet and mingle, --to rise by our individual worth, without any consideration of caste or color; and they who deny us this right are false to their own professed principals of human equality.