Youth Pledge Quotes & Sayings

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply. — Michael Bloomberg

I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size — J.R.R. Tolkien

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. — Edmund Burke

One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists. — Larry King

He was massive, a veritable Arnold Schwarzenegger of a cat, with a wide, handsome face and a proud, lionish expression. — Nicholas Dodman

Die, thou badger-shagging spunk monkey," said I. — Christopher Moore

The dedication had been anticipated nationwide. Francis J. Bellamy, an editor of Youth's Companion, thought it would be a fine thing if on that day all the schoolchildren of America, in unison, offered something to their nation. He composed a pledge that the Bureau of Education mailed to virtually every school. As originally worded, it began, I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands ... — Erik Larson

Sometimes we have to bend," she says, "to survive. — Alexandra Bracken

Despite the earnest belief of most of his fans, Einstein did not win his Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity, special or general. He won for explaining a strange effect in quantum mechanics, the photoelectric effect. His solution provided the first real evidence that quantum mechanics wasn't a crude stopgap for justifying anomalous experiments, but actually corresponds to reality. And the fact that Einstein came up with it is ironic for two reasons. One, as he got older and crustier, Einstein came to distrust quantum mechanics. Its statistical and deeply probabilistic nature sounded too much like gambling to him, and it prompted him to object that "God does not play dice with the universe." He was wrong, and it's too bad that most people have never heard the rejoinder by Niels Bohr: "Einstein! Stop telling God what to do. — Sam Kean

Or take a vacation. Everywhere in America is pretty much the same, and I don't recommend going overseas, not with the way the world regards us. It's just not safe now, safe being one of those words like free or clean or sincere that can never be said without the invisible quotation marks anymore, but still. You should get away. — Dave Mountain

You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther — Sarah Dessen

Though youth be past, and beauty fled,
The constant heart its pledge redeems,
Like box, that guards the flowerless bed
And brighter from the contrast seems. — Sarah Josepha Hale

Religions themselves are ... peace-loving. They can also be a constructive force in peace-building, and this also applies to the Middle East. — Martti Ahtisaari

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record — Nick Murray

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke. — Mahatma Gandhi

'Translations,' Lateran said scornfully, examining the bruises along Kestrel's ribs. 'Like caressing your lover through a burlap sack. You get the gesture of the thing, but not the nuance, and it is overall an irritating experience.' — L.S. Baird