Beiden Emails Quotes & Sayings

The dropout problem touches countless students, parents, and faith leaders, but many of these have only a vague grasp of what, exactly, the dropout phenomenon is. The first step in the discovery process is to understand two simple facts: Teenagers are some of the most religiously active Americans. American twentysomethings are the least religiously active. — David Kinnaman

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — J.G. Ballard

Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine. — Herbert Spencer

Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers. — Michael Heseltine

The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit! — Philibert Joseph Roux

All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any. — Janet Morris

I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise. — Caitlin Rose

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease. — Khalil Gibran

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox. — Edward Jenner

Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor? — Cate Blanchett