Petrified Wood Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you don't have enough money to hire a real science teacher. Sometimes you have an old real science teacher who retires or quits and leaves you without a replacement. And if you don't have a real science teacher, then you pick one of the other teachers and make him the science teacher.
And that's why small-town kids sometimes don't know the truth about petrified wood. — Sherman Alexie

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. — Nikki Giovanni

I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy! — Gemma Arterton

It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague. — Heidi Cullinan

People rid the room of argument until they have no one left - except people who agree with them. It is understandable. But I like a good argument. — Bono

You are so much more than you are willing to accept, child. — Brandon Sanderson

Kahlan sighed impatiently. "Richard, you promised Zedd we would go to Aydindril." "I did. But I didn't promise him when. — Terry Goodkind

One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is that no man should be judge in his own cause. By this each person has at once divested himself of the first fundamental right of uncovenanted man, that is, to judge for himself, and to assert his own cause. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. He inclusively, in a great measure, abandons the right of self-defense, the first law of nature. Men cannot enjoy the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together. That he may obtain justice, he gives up his right of determining what it is in points the most essential to him. That he may secure some liberty, he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it. — Edmund Burke

This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing house (5.5m long, 3.8m wide, outer wall construction: wood, roof construction: thatch), stows both the plan and the mosquito in his briefcase. On a German shelf, this mosquito, pressed flat between large quantities of paper, will outlast time and times, and one day it might even be petrified, who knows. — Jenny Erpenbeck

Time
our youth
it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds. — Helen Hooven Santmyer

I believe that in order to tackle the big issues of the world today, like environmental issues, we need everybody's involvement. We need the resources of the corporate world. We need the cooperation of governments. We need the wisdom of indigenous people. — Michael Franti