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Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Ian Graham

The Foundling Hospital was established in 1741 by a businessman and philanthropist named Thomas Coram as a children's home for the "education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children." He was moved to establish it by the sight of abandoned babies and young children starving and dying on the streets of London. Today, part of the site the Foundling Hospital stood on is a children's playground near the world-famous Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. The Foundling Hospital itself has gone, but the charitable organization behind it still exists, now known as the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, or simply Coram. — Ian Graham

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Elizabeth Gaskell

Our Lord Jesus was not above letting folk minister to Him, for he knew how happy it makes one to do aught for another. It's the happiest work in earth. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Christos Yannaras

Increasingly, Christian life seems to be nothing more than a particular way of behaving, a code of good conduct. Christianity is increasingly alienated, becoming a social attribute adapted to meet the least worthy of human demands - conformity, sterile conservatism, pusillanimity and timidity; it is adapted to the trivial moralizing which seeks to adorn cowardice and individual security with the funerary decoration of social decorum. — Christos Yannaras

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Richard Madden

Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines. — Richard Madden

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Ken Novak

It will all be over in 2 weeks — Ken Novak

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Ray Bradbury

Chain-smoking, chapter by chapter, all the silly things the words mean, all the false promises, all the second-hand notions and time-worn philosophies. — Ray Bradbury

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Colette

Do I have a separate room? Don't I make love to you well?"
She hesitated, smiling with exquisite suspicion. "Do you call that love, Fred?"
"There are other words for it, but you wouldn't appreciate them. — Colette

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By R.v.m.

First you Yearn to Earn. Then you Learn that others will Burn what you Earn. Stop! Turn and Spend before your End.-RVM — R.v.m.

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Henry Miller

He falls on her lap and lies there quivering like a toothache — Henry Miller

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Gene Simmons

Our job is to leave the world a little better than we found it. Not the same ... not worse ... better. — Gene Simmons

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Victor Hugo

Excess of grief, like excess of joy is a violent thing which lasts but a short time. The heart of man cannot remain long in one extremity. — Victor Hugo

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Sarah Dessen

After the group vet appointment
during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room
we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat. — Sarah Dessen

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Howard Metzenbaum

Do not let the forces of evil take over to make this a Christian America. — Howard Metzenbaum

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Ben Stein

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities. — Ben Stein

Ottfried Preussler Quotes By Homer

Achilles glared at him and answered, Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall — Homer