And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touchd by the thorns. – Thomas Moore
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – thats training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed. – Thomas Moore
The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Neer stoops to earth her wing, nor flies
Where idle warblers roam;
But high she shoots through air and light,
Above all low delay,
Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
Nor shadow dims her way. – Thomas Moore
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. – Thomas Moore
If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if ones sexuality is as intrinsic a part of ones identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. – Jon Meacham