Amcas Quotes & Sayings

Without knowing it, I had stumbled upon one of the basic postulates of homeschooling: Anything you do with a home-schooled child outside the home can be described as a "field trip", thus rendering whatever activity you pursue a legitimate educational experience. — Quinn Cummings

Each of us is like a wave in the ocean, a gust of wind, a lightning bolt - unique, yet at the same time part of a pattern of forces. — P.Z. Myers

I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah ... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term. — Jim Bolger

Occurred to him he wouldn't have to argue with himself the — Nora Roberts

A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening. — Evan Esar

Somebody who should have been born
is gone.
Yes, woman, such logic will lead
to loss without death. Or say what you meant,
you coward ... this baby that I bleed. — Anne Sexton

The greatest of all evils is a weak government — Benjamin Disraeli

As we understand the world better, the idea that it has a transcendent purpose seems increasingly untenable. — Sean Carroll

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality! — Mae West

Train them to pay attention to their choices. ("Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are good ideas," he would lecture, "but those three concepts should only be the last resort. What you really need to focus on are two other words that also begin with R- Reconsider and Refuse. Before you even acquire the disposable good, ask yourself why you need this consumer product. And then turn it down. Refuse it. You can.") — Elizabeth Gilbert

The incarnation is the indispensable basis for union with Christ. — Robert Letham

The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly gave it triumph over the rabble of heathen gods then acknowledged. Thinking men of all nations rallied readily to the doctrine of one only God, and embraced it with the pure-morals which Jesus inculcated. — Thomas Jefferson