“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
Civilization
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson727
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Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (August 28, 1925)
Letters
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Knox College Commencement Address (4 June 2005)
2005
“A bumpity ride in a wagon of hay”
Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) English poet and fiction writer
Bunches of Grapes.
“Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle … knowledge exists primarily for use.”
Carl R. Rogers (1902–1987) American psychologist
On Becoming a Person (1961)
Source: page 281
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Variant: Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.
Source: The Greatest American President: The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”
Andrew S. Tanenbaum book Computer Networks
Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948) Indian politician
When some of the Railway Board members expressed apprehensions in increasing wagon loads, a decision which alone generated Rs 7,200 crore (Rs 72 billion) (Source: Lalu to teach management at IIM-A http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/30iim1.htm).