Categories Starting with “P”

“Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”

— Plato

“In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.”

— Marie Curie

“I'm attracted to the past.”

— Tom Stoppard

“A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.”

— Mark Twain

“I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.”

— Maya Angelou

“One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.”

— Pablo Picasso

“The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.”

— Maya Angelou

Explore persistence quotes from renowned thinkers and authors.

“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”

— Edmund Burke

“The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”

— Plato

“It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.”

— Ovid

“Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.”

— Cicero

“I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.”

— Linus Torvalds

“Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That's great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?”

— Seth Shostak

“Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.”

— Buzz Aldrin

“The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche