Rederek Quotes & Sayings

I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven — Jacoby Jones

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement. — Tariq Ramadan

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue. — Cornel West

In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know. — Dan Rather

You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken ... Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?
We cannot ... Anything received into the mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts ... — Plato

She looked,' said Alec Guthrie dryly, 'like a clever woman who was not unaware that five ill-dressed passers-by were displaying an unhealthy interest in her personal life. — Dorothy Dunnett

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

All the same, she cries on the front porch, and I wish I could go over there and hold her. I wish I could rescue her and hold her in my arms. How do people live like this? How do they survive? And maybe that's why I'm here. What if they can't anymore? — Markus Zusak

The road to one's fate is never an easy task. What worth would eternity be if you didn't have to work hard to obtain it? — Maren Dille