Lillian D Wald Quotes & Sayings

Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed. — Lillian Wald

The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have of public spirit, and partaking of the life about them; preserving their identity as individuals and endeavoring to keep the settlement free from the institutional form of philanthropic work ... the relationship is reciprocal ... — Lillian Wald

I want to be the be-all and end-all when it comes to my daughter. I want to be the man that every other man has to look up to. I will treat her like a princess because if I don't, she might go out and latch on to the first man who does. So yeah, I open car doors and I take her on dates and I buy her flowers for no reason. Because I want her to know she's worthy of all of those things. And I fix hair. — Tammy Falkner

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live — Jacqueline Novogratz

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong. — Lillian Wald

THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER. — Isaac Asimov

The hardest thing to attain ... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority. — George Saintsbury

There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That's Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal. — Shane Smith

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world. — Lillian Wald

Let me go!" she growls. "No." "Let me fucking go, Colton." Her voice is tiny, scared, vulnerable, and vehement. "You let go." "Why?" A hitch in her voice. "Because holding on to it is killing you. — Jasinda Wilder

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came to be persuaded that animals should be treated as independent sentient beings, not as means to human ends. — Peter Singer

... I'm no longer willing to let myself down. — Sarah Jio

Instead, they are constantly trying to improve. They surround themselves with the most able people they can find, they look squarely at their own mistakes and deficiencies, and they ask frankly what skills they and the company will need in the future. — Carol S. Dweck

I need to be able to face things. — Cat Power

I know that the day will come when my sight of this earth shall be lost, and life will take its leave in silence, drawing the last curtain over my eyes.
Yet stars will watch at night, and morning rise as before, and hours heave like sea waves casting up pleasures and pains.
When I think of this end of my moments, the barrier of the moments breaks and I see by the light of death thy world with its careless treasures. Rare is its lowliest seat, rare is its meanest of lives.
Things that I longed for in vain and things that I got
let them pass. Let me but truly possess the things that I ever spurned and overlooked. — Rabindranath Tagore

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers. — Jet Li

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward. — Robin Trower

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any. — Les Paul