Sickkids Hospital Quotes & Sayings

The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships. — Vannevar Bush

The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter submits, that no party has a right to compel him to contribute to the support of doctrines, which do not meet his approbation. The rate-payer may as reasonably argue, that no one is justified in forcing him to subscribe towards the maintenance of persons, whom he does not consider deserving of relief. — Herbert Spencer

Trust is the glue of life. — Stephen Covey

The sun was hot and bright. A day for fishing, for swimming, for playing tennis and having fun, and they put my Christopher in the ground. — V.C. Andrews

Agony sometimes changes
form
but
it never ceases for
anybody. — Charles Bukowski

knit and purl These stitches are the fundamentals of knitting and are the basis of every garment. The knit stitch is a series of flat, vertical loops that produces a knitted fabric face and the purl stitch is its reverse. One side is smooth, the other bumpy. Knit is what you show the world; purl is the soft, nubbly underside you keep close to the skin. — Kate Jacobs

After all, is a gentleman's library of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves anything more than a vanity? — Billy Collins

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich. — Will Rogers

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone. — Helen Keller

I know that's true for most micro-premature babies, but it's not true for Von. — Izzie Bebe

I think the six of us - we're all strong. We're each just a different kind of strong. But we all have a
different kind of weak too. And I'm figuring out how to bottle my weakness to help them all. — Krista Ritchie

Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in peace. She flecks her whip upon flesh that is more alive, upon that stream of hungry boys and girls who tramp the streets of every city, recognizable by their pride and discontent, who are the Future, and who possess the treasure of creative power. — Willa Cather