Schrattenthal Quotes & Sayings

This earth is not our home. We are away at school, trying to master the lessons of "the great plan of happiness" so we can return home and know what it means to be there. Over and over the Lord tells us why the plan is worth our sacrifice - and His. Eve called it "the joy of our redemption." Jacob called it "that happiness which is prepared for the saints." Of necessity, the plan is full of thorns and tears - His and ours. But because He and we are so totally in this together, our being "at one" with Him in overcoming all opposition will itself bring us "incomprehensible joy." — Bruce C. Hafen

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful! — Sarah Louise Delany

Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe — Saint Augustine

Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized for looking like a cheap broad. How am I supposed to live? Under the water or something, coming up only to say 'I beg your pardon if I disturb you by coming up for air. I'll do my best to remain submerged. — Pamela Moore

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs. — Margaret Spellings

The main thing to tell a person when you explain how to become righteous is to announce to him for free grace of God, concealing nothing, saying none other than what God says in the Gospel. Build a fence around Mount Sinai, but not around Golgotha ,because at Golgotha all God's wrath was appeased. — C.F.W. Walther

There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin. — Larry Wall

You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight with the wheel and jam on the brakes, which is the quickest way to get killed. What you have to do is let go, and the car will right itself. It's the same when an orchestra loses its ensemble. You have to resist the temptation to semaphore, and let the orchestra find its own way back to the pulse. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Be great, dwell on great thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If I had the flag that Betsy Ross worked so hard on, I wouldn't destroy it. I'd put it up on EBay because it's gotta be worth some serious coin. And that is the American way. — Paul Provenza

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue. — Alan K. Simpson

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate.
Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling — Frederick Leboyer

What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children. — Peter Andre

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us. — Yannick Noah

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child. — William, Saroyan