Madeleine L'Engle Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: November 29, 1918 - September 6, 2007
Birthday: November 29
Death: September 6
I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years. Byron, that revolutionary student, had to compensate for a club foot; Demosthenes for a stutter; and Homer was blind. Socrates couldn't manage his wife, and infuriated his countrymen. And what about Jesus, if we need an ultimate example of failure with one's peers? Or an ultimate example of love?
topic: Love, Jesus, School, Examples Of Love, School Years
