Allion Elementary Quotes & Sayings

We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about: not with a state which makes war through wantonness, and abandons it through lassitude. We are at war with a system, which by its essence, is inimical to all other governments, and which makes peace or war, as peace and war may best contribute to their subversion. It is with an armed doctrine that we are at war. It has, by its essence, a faction of opinion, and of interest, and of enthusiasm, in every country. — Edmund Burke

That even within its ugliness, there lay a surprising beauty, breathtaking because it was so unexpected. — Justina Chen

Nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess. — Helen Bevington

A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church. — Charles Spurgeon

Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic that goes through their networks the same, not offering preferential treatment to some websites over others or charging some companies arbitrary fees to reach users. — Marvin Ammori

We come into this world naked, covered in our own blood, screaming in terror - and it doesn't have to stop there if you know how to live right — Dana Gould

My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Even when I dropped out of high school, they said, 'We trust you, we believe in you.' — Philipp Meyer

I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having a whole computer to yourself as long as you liked.I felt a surge of intellectual power through access to this computer, and I started thinking about what this could mean for kids and the way they learn. That's when we developed the computer programming language for kids, Logo. — Seymour Papert

Live as if they know that they are worth their own time. Live as if they deserve to take care of their bodies. Live as — Geneen Roth

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways. — John Legend

The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it? — Pema Chodron

The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows. — Samuel Armen

Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation. — Norm Coleman

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s. — Edmund White