5th Grade President Quotes & Sayings

Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own. — Cathryn Louis

I believed then and I believe now that where everybody thinks the same nobody thinks very much. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be. — William J. Clinton

Certain directors and actors were constantly preoccupied by one problem, and apparently, one only. This was connected with the so-called German greeting, which was the method of hailing a friend by raising the right arm straight out with the hand extended at, or slightly above, the level of the shoulder. This greeting had very definite political implications; it was employed daily by millions; and the directors and actors saw no reason why it should not be one on the films in a simple and life-like fashion. They failed. Even when shown in the rushes the effect on the select and professional audience was simply to produce uncontrollable hilarity. The cinema can do a great deal. It can entrance, t can tell fairy tales, it can be realistic or surrealistic -- but it cannot portray a gesture that is false without underlining the most brutal way its basic falseness. The German cinema could not reproduce the German greeting; it was the greeting that was to blame, not the cinema. — Ernst Von Salomon

I don't have much of an ego, but I have a great deal of confidence! — Raymond Burr

In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day to blow up the mountains. Blasting our communities, blasting our homes, poisoning us, trying to intimidate us. I don't mind being poor. I mind being blasted and poisoned. There ARE no jobs on a dead planet. — Judy Bonds

I know my rights."
"And I know you're wrong. — Scott Blagden

But it's not hell," Pete spoke with amazing confidence. "Not if you love him. — Michael Schiefelbein

Islaam is the Name of the Universe. Christ is the Soul, and Abraham, the Foundation - The Rainbow At Midnight — AainaA-Ridtz

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. — Ethel Waters