Explore more quotes by William Bennett

"Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be."

Man, Now, Reason, Will

"For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously."

Morality, Children, Eyes

"Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty."

Challenge, Difficulty, Trying, Will

"Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language."

Family, Children, English, Language

"Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools."

Money, People, Schools, Years

"Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue."

Virtue, Thankfulness

"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."

Responsibility, School, Teaching

"The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day."

People, Character, Day

"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies."

Government, Character, Future, Promise

"If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it."

Peace,

Exlpore more Architecture quotes

"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."

Shana Alexander, American Journalist

Architecture, Sky

"One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful."

Oksana Baiul, American Athlete

Architecture, People, Beach, Favorite

"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy."

John Baldacci, American Politician

Architecture, Design, Music, Economy

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Architecture, Music, Work, Literature

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Architecture, Poetry, Dress, Man

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Architecture, Clouds, Rules

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Architecture, Acting, Planning, Right

"The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams."

Jay Chiat, American Businessman

Architecture, Work, People

"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."

Jay Chiat, American Businessman

Architecture, Politics, Work

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Architecture, Art, Sunset