Sanctuaries Related Quotes & Sayings

The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them. — J. Michael Straczynski

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house. — Diogenes

I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher. — Truth Devour

Profound theology doesn't make anyone righteous; what pleases me is an exemplary life. Regret for wrongdoing is better than knowing its definition. — Thomas A Kempis

You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose. — Grant Cardone

My necessities were books. I read a book at school, another to and from school, yet another at the beach, which was the closest escape from my father's dying. Though when I walked alone it was far. Though I wasn't allowed to walk alone when younger - so young that my concern wasn't the danger to myself but to the books I'd bring, because they weren't mine, they were everyone's, entrusted to me in return for exemplary behavior, and if I lost even a single book, or let even its corner get nicked by a jitney, the city would come, the city itself, and lock me up in that grim brick jail that, in every feature, resembled the library. — Joshua Cohen

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics. — John Ralston Saul

In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's really kind of a real thrill to go there. I mean, don't forget, I'm a boy from the suburbs of Sydney, so getting to New York is a huge, huge thrill. — Hugh Jackman

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint. — Common

I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews. — Maude Adams

One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past. — Stephen Kinzer