Opvoeden In Tijden Quotes & Sayings

I took out my first library card ... I spent most of my Saturdays at the library (no interruptions) breathing in the world of penniless shoeshine boys who, with goodness and perseverance, became rich, rich men, and gave baskets of goodies to the poor on holidays. The little princesses who were mistaken for maids, and the long-lost children mistaken for waifs, became more real to me than our house, our mother, our school or Mr. Freeman — Maya Angelou

The only way to make men speak well of us is to do it. — Voltaire

J. R. R. Tolkien, undisputedly a most fluent speaker of this language, was criticized in his day for indulging his juvenile whim of writing fantasy, which was then considered - as it still is in many quarters - an inferior form of literature and disdained as mere "escapism." "Of course it is escapist," he cried. "That is its glory! When a soldier is a prisoner of war it is his duty to escape - and take as many with him as he can." He went on to explain, "The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as possible. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Texan is what you are, not what you were or might be. — Robert Ruark

Casket wreath* 13 Diabetes Insulin Leeches* 14 Hatchet embedded in skull Removal of hatchet, treatment of wound Larger — Dave Barry

I should think that is what anyone would wish- to be loved for themselves and not their position. — Kendare Blake

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. — Oscar Wilde

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain. — Federico Fellini

Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding. PROVERBS 23:23 — Joel Osteen

My father would go to work and try to survive every day just to get home to my mother so they could be at each other's side. That's what I want. — Johnathon Schaech

I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures. — Michael Eric Dyson

Panties aren't the greatest thing in the world, but they're next to them. — Jerry Lawler

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye. — Kimon Nicolaides

She leaned toward him, her gaze on his. "I'm probably going to kill you," she whispered, temper still in her tone.
He grinned. The woman had made him smile more in the last several hours than he had in many years. "Thanks for the fair warning. Here's one back. Every time you swear at me, every time you physically attack me, and definitely every time you try to kill me...I'm going to kiss you until you stop."
Her lip curled. "Then I'll just have to succeed with the kill."
Smart and spirited. "I look forward to it. — Rebecca Zanetti

I can't do this by myself. It requires two security codes to access the full system and shut it down. — Alan Dean Foster