"Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it."

-- John Goodlad

#Powerful Quotes #Parent Quotes #Maintaining Quotes

“Something that is yours forever is never precious”

Source : Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.165, Anchor
“Faith never knows where it is being led, or it would not be faith. True faith is content to travel under sealed orders.”

Source : Oswald J. Sanders, J Oswald Sanders (1970). “Bible Men of Faith”
“It's ok to FAIL it's not ok to Quit”
“In my state, two women who came to the U.S. as 'mail-order brides' were killed by abusive husbands. They had risked everything to come to this country, and it cost them their lives. We must let women know they have options.”
“In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and winding, ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.”
“There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.”
“Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.”
“The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.”

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