Warding Off Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Children's books: Every time you find the right, the necessary, book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled, hearts mended - you perform the best kind of magic ... every time you give just the right book to just the right child, you're saying, "You, my friend, have potential." That is a gift. That is a miracle. And that is what you do, each of you, every single day. — Katherine Applegate

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards. — Stella Young

In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school! — Milton Friedman

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. — Lin Yutang

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

You can't own what belongs to the world. — T.J. Klune

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace. — Brennan Manning

people to ourselves rather than Jesus, and then wonder why power has left the pulpit and why the deep theological treasures of some of the old hymns have degenerated into songs that exalt us above the glory of our Creator. Despite our pretensions, our pride grows — Matt Boswell

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound. — E.B. White

Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable. — Koki Hirota