Rediker Gradebook Quotes & Sayings

Community as belonging ...
Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships with parents, is different. But in each one there is a yearning for communion and belonging, but at the same time a fear of it. Love is what we want, yet it is what we fear the most. Love makes us vulnerable and open, but then we can be hurt through rejection and separation. We may crave for love, but then be frightened of losing our liberty and creativity. We want to belong to a group, but we fear a certain death in the group because we may not be seen as unique. We want love, but fear the dependence and commitment it implies; we fear being used, manipulated, smothered and spoiled. We are all so ambivalent toward love, communion and belonging. — Jean Vanier

Let's begin to cover the main street of America ... just to see what the heck occurs on it. — Roy Stryker

Trust me. - Silk — David Eddings

Man is remembered by his deeds. — Knute Nelson

I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women. — Joe Shuster

Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me. — Jane Siberry

There are a great many aspects to feline life, but the three most important - the Holy Trinity, if you will - are eating, sleeping and washing. — Jem Vanston

I've never met a leopard print I didn't like. — Diana Vreeland

Without the Project I was nothing but a secretary on a road to nowhere, drifting toward frosted hair and menthol addiction. — Julie Powell

It doesn't become important until you don't have it anymore. — Jenny Han

Speech does not always unravel matters. Words can betray you, their labyrinthine threads tangled in knots, for we were cursed at that great tower of Babel, to speak always in riddles and never yet to comprehend. — Ned Hayes

To know the secrets of a place, to read it on many levels, and to sense the vastness of the unknown is, I think, the key to love. — Nathanael Johnson

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry. — Kim Hyesoon

There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education. — Elisabeth Marbury