Diligentia Ditat Quotes & Sayings

I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments. — Marva Collins

If your reading habits are anything like mine, then you can remember the exact moment that certain books came into your life. You remember where you were standing and whom you were with. You remember the feel of the book in your hands and the cover, that exact cover, even if the art has changed over the years. — Alethea Kontis

If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you? — Lucille Clifton

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time. — Marsha Thomason

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. — Samuel Richardson

We are like horses that must be broken; basically that one should submit to a pastor even if he is wrong. — John Bevere

I just think that movies are really fake; they should be fake. — Steven Conrad