Dialogues For Kids Quotes & Sayings

The only test, Baker, is how not to erase ourselves from the map. Our history is that things don't last. Every generation creates the right monsters to destroy itself. — Gerard Donovan

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken. — Jennifer Granholm

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself. — Henry Clay Trumbull

It is during the worst storms that you get the best colors of the rainbow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse. — Deborah Tannen

The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break. — Angela Carter

The wizards' automatic response to any problem was to see if there was a book about it. — Terry Pratchett

Any guy afraid to die was a guy who was afraid to live. — JoAnn Ross

Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere. — Max Lucado

We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much. — Diane Ackerman

In actuality they were neither of them old men; their arms were still wiry with muscle, their backs straight and strong, and yet they had surpassed the mean, the centremark of their lives, and were both aware of an overall dimming. "Every — Patrick DeWitt

If people had wheels and could fly, how would we differentiate them from airplanes? - Anonymous — Randall Munroe

watch out for schools that promise your kids will "experience success." I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time. — David Kahn

The pretty lady come to play with knives, is it?" the man taunted. "Watch out you don't break a nail. I only date presentable girls." Shanti stepped forward and punched him in the sternum with her right hand. She elbowed him in the face with her left before ripping his knife from his hand. With economical movements, she knocked him in the head with the hilt, punched him in the gut, ripped his big body to the side, and stepped around him with a smooth movement. The knife made a loud thunk as it found the center of the target painted on the wooden post twenty paces away. — K.F. Breene

The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led. — Paul Park

Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands. — Janet Morris