White Backpacks Quotes & Sayings

It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably. — Donna McKechnie

I'd been so caught up in surviving and staying free, that I'd forgotten that freedom was a state of mind. — R.J. Prescott

Faith is the absence of peace, and reflection of fear. — Lionel Suggs

Imagine a morning in late November. A coming of winter morning more than twenty years ago. Consider the kitchen of a spreading old house in a country town. A great black stove is its main feature; but there is also a big round table and a fireplace with two rocking chairs placed in front of it. Just today the fireplace commenced its seasonal roar. A woman with shorn white hair is standing at the kitchen window. She is wearing tennis shoes and a shapeless gray sweater over a summery calico dress. She is small and sprightly, like a bantam hen; but, due to a long youthful illness, her shoulders are pitifully hunched. Her face is remarkable - not unlike Lincoln's, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind; but it is delicate, too, finely boned, and her eyes are sherry-colored and timid. "Oh my," she exclaims, her breath smoking the windowpane, "it's fruitcake weather! — Truman Capote

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. — Blaise Pascal

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action. — Hazel Hawke

[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes]. — Marian Wright Edelman

The good thing about my fans is that they like when I'm awkward and real, so I'm able to just go on stage and be my dorky self. — Tori Kelly