Alantika Quotes & Sayings

Every day, I get e-mails from kids who want a tree - a world away from the adult world. — Jean Craighead George

When other people ask me, 'What gives you the right to suggest standards for others?', my answer is, 'If I don't, someone else, perhaps less qualified, will. — Anton Szandor LaVey

Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make despair a constant companion whom we out-wrestle every day owing to our commitment to justice, love, and hope. — Cornel West

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation. — C.S. Lewis

Youth!! Ah, what a word!! And how transitory! But, how grand! as long as it lasts. How many millions in gold would pour out for an ability to call it all back, as with our musical myth, Faust. During that magic part of a child's growth this world is just a gigantic inquiry box, containing many a topic for which a solution is paramount to a growing mind. And to whom can a child look, but us adults? Any man who "can't stop now" to talk with a child upon a topic which, to him is"too silly for anything," should look back to that day upon which that topic was dark and dubious in his own brain. A child who asks nothing will know nothing. That is why that "bump of inquiry" was put on top of our skulls. — Ernest Vincent Wright

No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me. — Ernest Hemingway,

I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces a feeling of being in two places at once. — Mary Lasswell

A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book. — Mae West

Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power to determine just what that series shall be? — Ralph Waldo Trine

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face. — David Levithan

If humanity survives long enough to understand what he really was, they can dig him up and put on display the grandiose depravity of the twentieth century. — Barbara Kingsolver

If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon