Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night. Votes: 1
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. Votes: 3 Wendell Berry
Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'. Votes: 4 Lindsay Lohan
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Votes: 8 Albert Einstein