Onderwyser Quotes & Sayings

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human. — Caitlin Moran

He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height. — Quintus Curtius Rufus

If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris. — Oscar De La Renta

As we get older and wiser, that we all learn to trust each other enough so that we can truly be ourselves, and accept each other for who we really are. — R.J. Palacio

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that? — C.S. Lewis

This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee! — Thomas Moore

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do. — Richard Steele

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare' — Anthony Giddens

The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun. (Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea, Wilt thou yet change, as though God were a god? — C.S. Lewis

Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you. — Chris Sligh

She told me about a group of people in Guinea who carry the sky on their heads. They are the people of Creation. Strong, tall, and mighty people who can bear anything. Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. — Edwidge Danticat

Because you alone are the spark that will burn clean and let the new growth come. — Patrick Weekes

An epigram a day keeps the mind from going astray. — Dr Steven Bottomley