Namesake Chapter 5 Quotes & Sayings

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right. — Kofi Annan

All that remains is to forge the #commitment. Regardless of how right everything feels, words never last. — Doug Cooper

Because we had known the good times, I think my brother and I felt the loss more acutely. My father's waning presence, his chronic absence, his disappearance. Now he was just a memory. — Bryan Cranston

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in. — Peter Block

Our ignorance of the future has been wisely ordained of Heaven. For unless man were to be like God and know everything, it is better that he should know nothing. If he knows one fact only, instead of profiting by it he will assuredly land in the soup. — John Buchan

When teams win and play well, everyone benefits from a financial standpoint. But everyone takes pride in people being able to achieve at that level. — Brendan Daly

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today. — Bob Filner

Come, what did I say, repeat it? he would ask. But I could never repeat anything, so ludicrous it seemed that he should talk to me, not of himself or me, but of something else, as though it mattered what happened outside us. Only much later I began to have some slight understanding of his cares and to be interested in them. — Leo Tolstoy

See, this is why I hate Google. You come across one site, match one symptom, and all of a sudden you're dying of carbon monoxide poisoning or cancer of the big toe. — K.J. McPike