Famous quotes containing the words stevenson, high and/or school:
“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“From the beginning, the placement of [Clarence] Thomas on the high court was seen as a political end justifying almost any means. The full story of his confirmation raises questions not only about who lied and why, but, more important, about what happens when politics becomes total war and the truth—and those who tell it—are merely unfortunate sacrifices on the way to winning.”
—Jane Mayer, U.S. journalist, and Jill Abramson b. 1954, U.S. journalist. Strange Justice, p. 8, Houghton Mifflin (1994)
“You send a boy to school in order to make friends—the right sort.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)