Craddocks Air Quotes & Sayings

Our teachers were firm believers in the corporal punishment that Americans had given up, which was probably one reason they could no longer win wars. For us, violence began at home and continued in school, parents and teachers beating children and students like Persian rugs to shake the dust of complacency and stupidity out of them, and in that way make them more beautiful. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade. — Adam Smith

The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else. — Zooey Deschanel

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way. — Margaret Atwood

No one has success until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold activity of energy, enthusiasm and gladness. It is to spring to meet the day with a thrill at being alive. It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy. It is to realize the oneness of humanity. — Lilian Whiting

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. — Scott Westerfeld