Famous Laura Secord Quotes & Sayings

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. — Charles Dickens

Life begins at six
at least in the minds of six-year-olds ... In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby ... Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life ... First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world. — Stella Chess

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far. — Daniel Ellsberg

Perhaps one of my biggest lessons was learning the healthy difference between passive, aggressive, and assertive characteristics of behavior. I think this is one of the great balances necessary for healthy individuals and cultures, and I have considered it carefully. To be passive means you don't stand up for your own rights. To be aggressive means that you stand up for your rights while not honoring the rights of others. Both of these patterns of unhealthy behavior were dominant in our society, with men and women in substantial measure and in all of their relationships. What was missing was assertiveness, as it was predominantly programmed right out of us. Assertiveness means that you stand up for your rights while honoring the rights of others. It is difficult to be manipulated or to manipulate others when you are genuinely assertive, so that was why it was a danger in a culture built on manipulation. — Rebecca Musser

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe. — Brother Andrew

It is manifest that behind the so-called curtain which is supposed to conceal the inner world, there is nothing to be seen unless we go behind it ourselves, as much in order that we may see, as that there may be something behind there which can be seen. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I've evolved enough that I've learned to not subject others to the fallout of my own unhappiness. I think that's a significant, hard-won behavioral leap that, sadly, a staggering percent of the population of folks I know haven't quite mastered. — Keith Murray

She taught me that I deserved her. And in return, I took her away from the man who didn't. — Elizabeth Finn

Funnier still how much faith her parents put in him, considering the fact that Jay would officially be younger than Violet in less than a week.
Violet was about to turn seventeen, while Jay would still be sixteen for nearly two full months/
Jay liked that, the whole older-woman thing. He also liked to joke about the fact that Violet would soon be dating a younger man.
One night, when Violet's parents had gone out, he teased her about it, whispering against his throat, "I should probably be dating girls my own age now that you'll be over-the-hill." Jay was stretched out on Violet's bed as she curled against him.
Violet laughed, rising to the bait. "Fine," she challenged, pulling away and leaning up on her elbow. "I'm sure there are plenty of men my own age who would be willing to finish what you've started. — Kimberly Derting

Nobody knows that they're going to be Champions - you have to work to get there. — Dwyane Wade

I'm preparing to be a mother one day and I really wanted to get inside the mind of a mom. — LeToya Luckett

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

When he spoke, his words seared through the air like so many knives, clipped as topiary, crisp as biscuits. — Terry Pratchett

Humans fear death so much, but there is no death," he whispers. "There is only the illusion of it. We can never cease to be. We must stay like this. Forever. — Cynthia Hand