Abbeyfield Quotes

#1. We should each be a carrier of the Kingdom

Sunday Adelaja

#2. For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Honore De Balzac

#3. Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven't let her take away my will to somehow survive.

Dave Pelzer

#4. I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

Avril Lavigne

#5. If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?

Diogenes

#6. He understood the measure of his life now to be his capacity to believe in something - anything - other than what was happening in front of him. So they saw, but they did not see; so they heard, but they did not hear; and they knew, they knew it all, but still they tried not to know.

Richard Flanagan

#7. Ever since I was quite young, I was in St. John's Ambulance or the Red Cross; latterly, I've been involved in voluntary work with the mentally handicapped and Abbeyfield Old People's Homes.

Nicholas Winton

#8. What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

George Leonard

#9. Wasn't afraid of dying because dying had always been somewhere in our house, somewhere so close, we could feel the wind of it on our cheeks.

Jacqueline Woodson

#10. When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.

Manny Montana

#11. A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

Publilius Syrus

#12. Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

Alec-Tweedie