Walle Quotes & Sayings

...rich geometric experiences are the most important factor in the development of children's spatial thinking and reasoning. — John A. Van De Walle

Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that wiil devour your very soul. — James Mace

But be warned, Queen Mab, this is not yet over. One way or another, I will have my daughter back. Oberon — Julie Kagawa

I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life. — Stieg Larsson

If I could just somehow let you see yourself through my eyes. I guarantee your feet would never touch the ground again. — Scott Lynch

Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this. — Victor Devlin

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. — Jane Austen

You will probably find, in life, that successes and victories tend to overshadow the risks you took, while failure will amplify how idiotic they were. — Jim Butcher

Poor L.
We are sorry that you left so soon. We are even sorrier to have inveigled our Esmeralda and mermaid into a naughty prank. That sort of game will never again be played with you, firebird. We apollo [apologize]. Remembrance, embers ans membranes of beauty make artists and morons loose all self-control. Pilots of tremendous air ships and coarse, smelly coachmen are known to have been driven insane by a pair of green eyes and a copper curl. We wished to admire and amuse you, BOP [Bird of Paradise]. We went too far. I, Van, went too far. We regret that shameful, though basically innocent scene. These are times of emotional stress and reconditioning. Destroy and forget.
Tenderly yours,
A & V (in alphabetic order). — Vladimir Nabokov

There's no bravery in running away, but there can be in surrender. Sometimes to surrender to someone else's chaos is the bravest thing you can do. — Carmen Jenner

Very talented people make some very bad songs so that people with a fourth grade reading level can sing along. Sure, corporate worship is good- but for me, I get very bored in Church trying to worship. — Reese Roper

Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help. — King David

I can't tell if I hear your heart beating, or if it's mine," I say against his skin.
"Aren't they the same thing? — Cassie Mae

The MTV culture of Generation X spawned a genuine death culture the effects of which are still being in felt in a multiplicity of ways; the superficial identification with exotic cultures (while not having the slightest pretense of any economic commitment to such cultures or races); the obsession with gender equality which has trumped any moral concerns in that rubric; the worship of force and the dizzying halls of political correctness, a form of crowd control which millenials have adopted with not the slightest criticism. It was the 60's counterculture diluted by heroin, and at the same time the last real genuine artistic response on the part of a youthful generation. Gen X decided to take it the whole way; while most baby boomers made at least an attempt to stick to their ideals, Gen Xers parodied them and have fully embraced the NeoCon role they pretended to despise. — John Thomas Allen

Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics. — John A. Van De Walle