Bovay Foundation Quotes & Sayings

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it. — Edmund Burke

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of. — John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden

(When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it.) North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background. — Harper Lee

I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud. — Adriana Trigiani

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those
Not in position to look too close. — Robert Frost

Trial by jury in civil causes, ... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus ... all stand on the same footing; they are the common rights of Americans. — Richard Henry Lee

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year. — Amar'e Stoudemire

Looks out over the water, the ocean that changes and never changes. Horizons that seem like endings but only bend farther into the sky, curving into something new, beginning all over again. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness. — Duncan Hunter

I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey. — Chris Van Allsburg

I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad. — J.K. Rowling

No matter how old I get, I keep running into people who are smarter, nobler, and kinder. I really ought to start listening to them and telling my pride to shut up. I had gods tell me not to go to Asgard. I had witches tell me not to go to Flagstaff. You told me this plan wouldn't work. But I barreled ahead anyway for my own reasons. I still have plenty of growing to do. — Kevin Hearne

My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of pity and love, awaiting, calling, and receiving all who come to visit You; I believe that You are present in the Sacrament of the Altar; I adore You from the depths of my own nothingness; I thank You for the many graces You have given me, and especially for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament ... — Alphonsus Liguori

The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me. — Gloria Steinem