Quotes

“When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” George Washington Carver

“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” George Washington Carver

“Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.” George Washington Carver

“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” George Washington Carver

“If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.” George Washington Carver

“I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.” George Washington Carver

“There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.” George Washington Carver

“Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.” George Washington Carver

“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.” George Washington Carver

“When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.” George Washington Carver

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“Be of love a little more careful than of anything.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.” Edward Estlin Cummings