"Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue."

-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Roots Quotes #Facts Quotes #Vices Quotes

“Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.”

Source : Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.238, Basic Books
“In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.”

Source : Song: In Christ Alone
“Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches.”

Source : Thomas Guthrie (1856). “The Gospel in Ezekiel”, p.289
“From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but”

Source : James Cook (1897). “Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World”
“It's difficult to sit down and write a letter back saying, "you know what, even if we remove the word from the dictionary, people will still continue to use it." That's the tightrope that we walk - "gay marriage" is another example, or the word "nude."”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.”
“I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.”

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