Quotes about Admittance

David Foster Wallace

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

United States

Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the united states, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.

While not generally known, the Articles of Confederation contemplated the strong possibility that Canada would become part of the United States. However, there was too strong a Tory element in Canada and it did not happen. The Constitution was not drafted until 1787 and was ratified later. In the interim the young United States functioned under the Articles of Confederation, in a sense, our first Constitution.

Henry Hitchcock

The law faculty see no reason why any young woman who in respect to character and acquirements fulfilled the Conditions applicable to male students, and who chose to attend the law lectures in good faith for the purpose of becoming acquainted with the laws of her Country, should be denied that privilege.

The memo was in reaction to the efforts of Phoebe W. Couzins to enter the law school of the university. Two years later, Washington University of St. Louis became the first university in America to adopt a policy allowing female students.

Frederick Douglass

The point we must aim at is to obtain admittance for our children to the nearest and the best schoolhouse.

Alex Ferguson

The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.

Maya Angelou

If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into.

John Locke

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

J. R. R. Tolkien

They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it.

Jacques Chirac

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

Admittance Quotes