Famous quotes containing the words grateful, dead and/or formation:
“The only ones who are really grateful for the war are the wild ducks, such a lot of them in the marshes of the Rhone and so peaceful ... because all the shot-guns have been taken away completely taken away and nobody can shoot with them nobody at all and the wild ducks are very content. They act as of they had never been shot at, never, it is so easy to form old habits again, so very easy.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Jefferson Smith: I hate to stand here and try your patience like this, but either I’m dead right or I’m crazy.
Senator MacPherson: You wouldn’t care to put that to a vote, would you, Senator?”
—Sidney Buchman (1902–1975)
“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)