Whittiers First Day Quotes & Sayings

All my friends are in my books. — B. Cameron Lee

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream. — Elizabeth Taylor

Whatever are the difficulties in believing that the Old and New Testaments proceed from, or record the acts of, a perfectly wise and good being, the same and still greater difficulties stand in the way of the belief, that a being of such a character can have been the Maker of the universe. He considered Butler's argument as conclusive against the only opponents for whom it was intended. Those who admit an omnipotent as well as perfectly just and benevolent maker and ruler of such a world as this, can say little against Christianity but what can, with at least equal force, be retorted against themselves. — Christopher Hitchens

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it. — Andre Gide

God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6]. — Thomas Brooks

We learn about tithing by paying it. — James E. Faust

There is something, like a feeling, that reminds me of happy days filled with exploration and imagination. Days where the rest of the world fell behind me and only left a friend. — Angeles Kossio

Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean? — Phil Klay

Abortion is either OK or it's not. — Peggy Noonan

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure ... I grew up in utopia. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air. — Robin Gibb

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive. — Robert Frost

I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very clearly the building is making progress in integrating itself into various layers of our culture. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke. — Roman Payne

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness. — Bill Bryson