“Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire”
W.B. Yeats
“We are liveborn in the light of the sun & the moon not the darkness of the clouds & night.”
Thomas Flajnik - antichimerapodal
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad. / They may not mean to, but they do. / They fill you with the faults they had / And add some extra, just for you.”
Philip Larkin
“Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.”
William Bennett
“Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities -- something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life.”
E. M. Forster
“There's no way I would fill up our cars with gas once a week any more. We're not using a full tank of gas even once a month.”
Steve Young
“I think I'm a fair-sized '41, definitely not big but fair enough. I feel like I've filled into the weight class for the first time in five years. As far as scoring, I've always felt that if I really need to score, I can go on anyone in the country for the most part.”
Nate Gallick