Quotes About Progress

Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better. The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.

Everything's amazing right now, and nobody's happy.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

That was in the past - we're in the future now.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees.

I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.

It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster.