The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.
If you had lived 2,000 years ago and sung like that, I think they would have stoned you.
The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.
There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.
Whatever you do do it with all your might. Work at it early and late in season and out of season not leaving a stone unturned and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
Women can't do everything at the same time we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom pride and conditional love things may look good for a while but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful one can wage a pitiless war but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone and the truth of those not to be depended on.
If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Travel and society polish one but a rolling stone gathers no moss and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite just many people doing things that build on eachother like a wall of mini stones.