Caldicott Prize Quotes & Sayings

Life gives us clay; it is we to make a pot out of it! But sometimes it gives us pot; it is again we to keep it in one piece, as a pot! All jobs are ours! Life only gives things and it has no other responsibility! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No one is in a more strategic position than you are to influence the people you are with. — Don Piper

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar. — Ed Miliband

Somewhere in my brain
each laugh, tear and lullaby
becomes memory. — Jacqueline Woodson

This was the winter of 2008/9. Work was ongoing to reinstate a tram system in the city. A lot of people couldn't see the point of trams and many more disliked the disruption. Streets were closed off. There was almost a sense of 'apartheid' as the roadworks made it difficult to move from New Town to Old Town and vice versa. Added to which, the weather was fairly grim. And the banks looked ready to implode. — Ian Rankin

The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water. — Dhani Jones

Marital discord, she decided, was like some sort of low-grade fever that threw the whole system just slightly out of whack so you couldn't manage to function at full capacity. — J.D. Robb

I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown. — Mark Linkous

We had so much to say to each other, like we'd been quiet our whole lives until we met. It was as if I had underestimated how hungry I was for a companion, how much I needed to be understood, to be pursued, to be seen and to be reflected in someone's eyes. — Kimberly Novosel

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. — Cokie Roberts

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home. — Albert J. Nock

The ordinary photon is a member of the boson family. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson