Melamed Academy Quotes & Sayings

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations. — Robert Barron

I may be a pawn, but I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and I can move like a queen. Don't piss me off. — Kim Harrison

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both." -- Horace Mann — Andy McWain

But I don't think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.' — Kurt Vonnegut

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time. — Robert Owen

Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success. — Brian Tracy

I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out. — Giuliana Sgrena

Love can make us fiends as well as angels. — Charles Kingsley