Christiaens Bouw Quotes & Sayings

...their eyes are fixed upon the present gain, and they are blind to the future. — Peter Kalm

His mama beat him with an ugly stick so hard, it gone straight on till his soul. — Delia Sherman

What we want, we have for our pains
The promise that if we but wait
Till the want has burned out of our brains,
Every means shall be present to state;
While we send for the napkin the soup gets cold,
While the bonnet is trimming the face grows old,
When we've matched our buttons the pattern is sold,
And everything comes too late-too late. — Fitz Hugh Ludlow

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject. — Albert Einstein

The past doesn't define us. It's what we do here and now, today, that does. This world was built on second chances. — Karina Halle

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism. — Seth Godin

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When kids make gross face,
parents say, "One day
your face is going to stick like that."
I'm afraid that one day
my panic's going to stick
and it's going to be my entire life,
every second,
and there will be nothing else. — Samantha Schutz

I shall reply that I really do look upon him as one of Byron's heroes, whom misery has marked with a fatal brand; some Manfred, some Lara, some Werner, one of those wrecks, as it were, of some ancient family, who, disinherited of their patrimony, have achieved one by the force of their adventurous genius, which has placed them above the laws of society." "You — Alexandre Dumas

I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe ...
Polly Baker — Benjamin Franklin

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child. — Barbara Damrosch

Then I'll have to succeed three times as hard as they want me to fail. You, of all people, should understand that. — Courtney Milan

It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible. — R.C. Sproul

It is through the contradictions in production and the resultant class struggle that the proletariat would one day also raise to the position of rulers, but unlike all previous social revolutions the interests of labour would act as the vessel for all classes, their rule would end the division of labour and thus the class society it creates. — Anonymous