FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with fruitful ideas, and should afford them knowledge, really ... (Charlotte Mason)

Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our ... (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson)

Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see - and seeing the secret, ... (Eugene O'Neill)

I work with Kick G.A.M.E., the grassroots artist movement. Not to tell people we have the best union plan in the world, but to show people that if some activists, ... (Immortal Technique)

There will be many times in your lives at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up when people will distract or divert you from what needs to ... (Julie Andrews Edwards)

Sheryl Sandberg: "It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness."115 She couldn't be more right. You will not be as ... (Eric Schmidt)

Cultural change occurs whenever a new meme is introduced and catches on. It might be romanticism or double-entry book-keeping, chaos theory or Pokemon. So where in the world do new ... (Michael Pollan)

I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love ... (Dorothy Hamill)

And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is ... (Melina Marchetta)

As Father, the only authority he claims for himself is the authority of compassion. ... (Henri J.M. Nouwen)

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like. ... (Vernon Howard)

Morning, ma'am. I'm looking for Tommy Mason. Is he around?" Polite and professional, that was Senior Agent Broussard. "Lord, what's that no-good sonofabitch done now? Wait, you ain't a cop; ... (Susannah Sandlin)

Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short-term disability, and employer-provided child care. Giving people a voice at work - ... (Thomas Perez)

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Saint Francis of Assisi ... (Joyce Meyer)

Mind the dead man, my dear. ... (Rachel Caine)

I'd rather let the music speak for itself. ... (Serj Tankian)

It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; ... (J.R.R. Tolkien)

You can safely assume you've remade God in your own image when it turns out God hates the same people you do. Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird ... (Janis Bragan Balda)

Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others ... (Axl Rose)

Julian placed her purse in the front seat. "She's got a loaded double-deuce in her purse, Peterson, though I'm not sure she knows how to use it. And be sure ... (Pamela Clare)

Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off. ... (Helen Hunt)

Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying? ... (John Stossel)

Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself. ... (Rick Warren)

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded. ... (Victoria Woodhull)

It spread out its wings, fitted them carefully into place again, ducked its head for a moment, as though making a sort of obeisance to the sun, and then began ... (George Orwell)

Take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and ... (Jonathan Swift)

You want me?" "Every bit of you," he mumbles. ... (Miranda Kenneally)

A true Christian does not see God's promise of forgiveness as a license to sin, a way to abuse His love and presume on His grace. Rather, he sees God's ... (John F. MacArthur Jr.)

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see. ... (Benjamin Franklin)

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way ... (E.L. Konigsburg)