Miss Pergrine S Quotes & Sayings

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own. — W.S. Gilbert

I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do. — Elizabeth Lesser

So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics - that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world - that is a different matter! It is laudable to give aid to the handicapped. Superficial charities make smooth the way of the prosperous; but to advocate that all human beings should have leisure and comfort, the decencies and refinements of life, is a Utopian dream, and one who seriously contemplates its realization indeed must be deaf, dumb, and blind. — Helen Keller

To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is. — Patricia Reilly Giff

The thing I don't understand about homosexuals is, how do they decide which one is the one who's supposed to pretend they don't want it? — Bill Maher

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
Robert Burns — Robert Burns

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together. — Sydney Wayser

If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape. — Arnold Palmer

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us. — Walt Disney Company

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. — Barry Lopez