Kankakee Quotes & Sayings

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated. — Caitlin Flanagan

For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act. — Steve King

Don't know where he's going but sees where he's been. — Shel Silverstein

Chris O'Dowd is a very special talent. He's one of those very, very rare actors who can be the clown, or he can be the straight man playing off the clown, in a scene. — Jim Piddock

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war — Huey Long

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous. — Stephen King

Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human culture, they are an especially appropriate symbol of the interdependence of spirit and nature. — Steven Clark Rockefeller

The only sure way to stop excessive risk taking on Wall Street so you don't risk losing your job, or your savings or your home, is to put an end to the excessive economic and political power of Wall Street by busting up the big banks. — Robert Reich

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence. — Werner Herzog

For years, Zagreb, Croatia's chief city, was a layover on the way to the country's island-studded coast. No more. Tourism had shot up more than 20 percent from 2011 to 2013, when Croatia joined the European Union. Accompanying that rise is a raft of modernized and recently built lodgings, including some three dozen hostels - important additions to the town's once-inadequate accommodation scene. — Anonymous

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself. — W. H. Auden