Famous quotes containing the words special, award, outstanding, performance and/or female:
“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will comethe readiness is
all.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (18951985)
“Our partys most outstanding mediocrity.”
—Leon Trotsky (18791940)
“The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school].... In the long run, a childs emotional development has a far greater impact on his life than his school performance or the curriculums richness, so it is wise to do everything possible to change a situation in which a child is suffering excessively.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)
“Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)