“This mountain, I thought, was like education: The higher you climbed, the farther you could see.”
Christiaan Barnard book One Life
One Life (New York: Macmillan Company, 1970), p. 49.
Crazy Loco Love: A Memoir (2008)
“This mountain, I thought, was like education: The higher you climbed, the farther you could see.”
Christiaan Barnard book One Life
One Life (New York: Macmillan Company, 1970), p. 49.
L. Neil Smith (1946) American writer
"Merchants of Fear".
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Source: What I Know For Sure
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola
“On, said the alethiometer. Farther, higher.
So on they climbed.”
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy
Source: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997), Ch. 15 : Bloodmoss
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Frances Cornford (1886–1960) English poet
"Epitaph for a Reviewer", line 1; from Collected Poems (London: Cresset Press, 1954) p. 112.
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
As quoted in "Ben Carson has an odd plan for the Dept of Education" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ben-carson-has-odd-plan-the-dept-education, MSNBC (October 22, 2015)