Grendon Primary Quotes & Sayings

It's important to clarify that a library is not necessarily made up of books that we've read, or even that we will eventually read. They should be books that we can read. Or that we may read. Even if we never do. — Jean-Claude Carriere

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism. — Abraham Lincoln

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

Don't text or Twitter during the show. Just live your life. Don't keep telling people what you're doing ... also it lights up your big dumb face. — Louis C.K.

A child cannot, thank Heaven, know how vast and how merciless is the nature of power, with what unbelievable cruelty people treat each other. — James Baldwin

What we want ... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own. — Howard Gardner

He reminded them of the Three Plagues, of the fact that people in nursing homes are dying of boredom, loneliness, and helplessness and that they wanted to find the cure for these afflictions. — Anonymous

People, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you. — Judith Martin

It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour Party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people. — Ruth Smeeth

Mama took me in her arms and held me tight. Her embrace was hot and she smelled like sweat, dust, and grease, but I wanted her. I wanted to crawl inside her mind to find that place that let her smile and sing through the worst dust storms. If I had to be crazy, I wanted my mama's kind of crazy, because she was never afraid. — Sarah Zettel