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• [on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dog, Rain, School

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• It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Mean, Way, Anarchy

  B. R. Ambedkar (1997). “Selected speeches of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: (1927 - 1956)”

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• It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Latin, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

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• Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

  Steve Earle

  Song, School, Kids

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• It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

  Noam Chomsky

  Animal, Language, Theory

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• My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

  Dave Brubeck

  Dad, School, Years

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• Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

  Being Thankful, Syntax, Genius

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• All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Use, Nouns, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.75, North Atlantic Books

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• I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!

  Miriam

  People, Spelling, Threat

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• I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Lying, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rip, Rain, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

  Jennifer Hudson

  School, Singers, Wanted

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• Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

  John Mayer

  Heart, Done, Want

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my instincts. They gave me the tools to reject my faith. They taught me to question and think for myself and to believe in my instincts to such an extent that I just said, "This is a wonderful fairy tale they have going here, but it's not for me."

  George Carlin

  Believe, School, Thinking

  "The New York Times", August 20, 1995.

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• Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

  A. N. Wilson

  Dragons, Monsters, Giants

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• Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

  Quentin Crisp

  Confused, Thinking, Mind

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• I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

  Emma Stone

  Kids, Bees, Spelling

  "Emma Stone: The Cool Girl". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

  Robert Frost

  Art, Vocabulary, Discipline

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• Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

  David Sedaris

  Mouths, Sometimes, Feels Right

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• I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

  Gary Numan

  Children, Home, School

  "Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

  Terry Eagleton

  Christian, Children, Believe

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• Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Female, Have Faith, Language

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.300, Penguin

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• Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.

  Janette Rallison

  Girl, Teenage, Writing

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• Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

  Joseph Heller

  Disappear, Make Sense, Knows

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

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• Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

  Muriel Barbery

  Thinking, Way

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.

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