Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. George Santayana American Philosopher More George Santayana Quotes 0
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. Marquis De Vauvenargues More Marquis De Vauvenargues Quotes 0
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt American First Lady More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes 0
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. Jean Rostand French Scientist More Jean Rostand Quotes 0
Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile. Adelaide Hasse More Adelaide Hasse Quotes 0
To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience. Roland Barthes French Critic More Roland Barthes Quotes 0