Switlik School Quotes & Sayings

You cannot say things one week and then behave differently. — Brian O'Driscoll

[About the wives of Weinsburg] They may only be a legend. I like to think they were real. Once the city of Weinsburg in Germany was under siege. The enemy emperor was dangerous but not unmerciful. When it became inevitable that the city would fall, the men of Weinsberg pleaded for their women, that they be allowed to flee with their lives. The emperor relented and allowed the women to leave the city with only the valuables they could carry on their backs. The day came and the gates of the city opened and the emperor watched in shock as the women stumbled through the gates nearly breaking under the weight of their husbands and fathers who they carried on their backs. Their love humbled the emperor and he declared all would be spared. ~ Nora — Tiffany Reisz

People were laughing at me anyway, so I thought I might as well start charging them. — Sarah Millican

[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant. One of the things he told me he loved about my voice was how I used space-both in music and between my voice and the mike. — Helen Merrill

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. — William Makepeace Thackeray

It is pleasant to walk over the beds of these fresh, crisp, and rustling leaves. How beautifully they go to their graves! how gently lay themselves down and turn to mould!
painted of a thousand hues, and fit to make the beds of us living. So they troop to their last resting-place, light and frisky. They put on no weeds, but merrily they go scampering over the earth, selecting the spot, choosing a lot, ordering no iron fence, whispering all through the woods about it,
some choosing the spot where the bodies of men are mouldering beneath, and meeting them half-way. — Henry David Thoreau

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old. — Christopher Vogler

If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child. — Stuart Duncan

Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced. — Steve Maraboli

A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right! — William Shakespeare

We're not a democracy. — Gore Vidal