Blackcurrant Jam Quotes & Sayings

What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace. — Oprah Winfrey

Another ten points from Gryffindor," said Snape. "I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room. — J.K. Rowling

As they lifted off, Aaron watched the white, puffy clouds and thought, "I'm going to die here. This is it." But God had a lot more for this child of mine, more than he could have ever imagined... — Diana Mankin Phelps

Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you. — Emma Forrest

I'm starting to like muggers more than congressmen. At least the muggers don't claim they're doing you a favor. — Paul Jacob

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials. — John Dewey

corridor, supposedly out of earshot, about the meeting they had just taken part in. Then we asked the team playing themselves to do the same. This enactment — Peter Hawkins

A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts. — Nelson Rodrigues

throwing himself into a chair in a manner which implied that he would rather have flung it at the head of his host. — Alexandre Dumas

No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the pathway a little clearer for the generations to come after, and put legible signboards at the points where the greatest dangers have threatened us, in the hope that our posterity will read, understand, and be warned. — Joseph Alexander Leighton

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles. — Mohamed ElBaradei

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. — Virginia Woolf