Hymnals Christian Quotes & Sayings

One of Ender's toonmates shook his head. You dumb as a thumb. — Orson Scott Card

The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work. — Aminu Kano

They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield. — Philip Freneau

I eat, I think of you. I drink, I drink to you. I cry, so you don't have to. I'd die, for you to live. And I'd survive with a broken heart only if it meant mending yours. — Rachel Van Dyken

The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life ... The Bible ... should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness. — Benjamin Rush

Our wise acts accompany us through life to please us and to help us. Just as surely, our unwise acts follow us to plague and torment us. Alas, they cannot be forgotten. In the front rank of the torments that do follow us are the memories of the things we should have done, of the opportunities which came to us and we took not. — George S. Clason

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality. — John Fowles

You have a real talent for getting your ass kicked. — Holly Black

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. — Jeff Melvoin

Leaders often find themselves temporarily alone. — Ernest Gruening