I count myself well educated for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this that America is truly the American people.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Having contemplated this admirable grove I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river and though it was now late in December the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality that it makes things happen.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculties in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god.

I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate admirable and noble kind of love.

I know that throughout their history the people of the United States defended their freedom their liberty their justice and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision but never once have I seen him break his cool lose his composure or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest more amazing than self-defense and as courageous as either one.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.