Silvermans Quotes & Sayings

In 1962 and 1963, there were two abominable decisions out of the Supreme Court, and that was taking prayer out of school, and taking bible reading out of school. But you know, if you look at the statistics, two very critical things happened after that date. Number one: teen pregnancy skyrocketed. Number two: violent crime skyrocketed. — Rafael Cruz

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. — Grandma Moses

Professional development is a collective resource, not a personal prerogative. Peer engagement forges powerful links between teacher learning and student growth. — Laura Lipton

This is God's work. It makes blisters and it makes sweat, but it's worth my time and it's worth your time ... Working together as God's people in the world-I don't know of anything more rewarding. — Millard Fuller

What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information. — Dan Webster

We all have struggle in our lives. We're all searching for personal freedom, whether we're in a bad place or trying to be true to ourselves. — Barbara Becker Holstein

Because life is a symphony it must have its C Minor. Days there be when we hear only a discord of sharps and flats, and we wonder whether harmony will ever be restored. On other days we hear only an ominous, deep strain which seems to say that hope is fled. But why this chill despair? Symphonies are a blending of many tones, high and low, over and under, major and minor. One day cannot make a life a whole any more than shadows can make a picture or minor notes a symphony. We need to hear life's song, not as the discord of a single day, but as the completed harmony of all the years. Then will today's sorrow and tomorrow's disappointment ring forth in major key as glorious melody. — W. Waldemar W. Argow

Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily false because it is badly expressed, nor true because it is expressed magnificently. — Augustine Of Hippo

About all we can hope to do is blow them apart. — Michael Crichton

If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to be enacted unless it is being reimagined by a writer? — Fred D'Aguiar

I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy. — Woody Allen

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for. — Chad Harbach