Scherbenpark Quotes & Sayings

From the seed of the thief
The Dragon will rise,
the gluttonous one,
feeding on the blood of babes,
Drinking the tears of mothers.
- Song of Venda — Mary E. Pearson

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf. — Marlee Matlin

I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press. — Joanna Baillie

Laws without morals are in vain. — Benjamin Franklin

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it. — Beverly Cleary

What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine. — John Adams

I'm sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing. Most of all however, I think it was the love that was given to me unconditionally and I felt that my whole life. It certainly wasn't that my parents always liked what I was doing, even my becoming a doctor, my father preferred I went into business so he could help me, but I wanted to be a doctor. — Bernie Siegel

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable. — Heinrich Heine

My son is 21. He'll be 22 if I let him. — Henny Youngman

I think at the end of the day, the real sick man of Europe is liable to turn out to be France, not Greece, not Portugal, not Spain, not Italy. The reason is France is very uncompetitive to begin with on a global scale, and the measures that Hollande has been putting in have been very, very negative from the point of view of economic growth. — Wilbur Ross