Best Civ Quotes

#1. I think it can be incredibly powerful for a teen to be able to put their story out there for others to soak in, learn from, relate to. In some ways, it validates their experience, which for teens (or for anybody, really) is a pretty huge deal.

Deborah Reber

#2. Well, you know what they say about traps." "Be sure the reward is worth the risk?" "Aye.

Carl James

#3. Our best hope will never lie in individual survivalism. Nor does it lie in small groups doing their best to prepare for the worst. Our best and only hope is a resistance movement that is willing to face the scale of the horrors, gather our forces, and fight like hell for all we hold dear.

Lierre Keith

#4. Look, I know these Rick Perry jokes are a little mean, but tomorrow, he won't even remember them.

Jimmy Fallon

#5. Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

Jessamyn West

#6. To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need for our civ ilisation; but
no such system has a chance while men are so unhappy that mutual extermination
seems to them less dreadful than continued endurance of the light of day

Bertrand Russell

#7. Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book.

Patti Smith

#8. The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#9. Ho' law an' Civ'lize ain't always the same, nay, see Kona got Kona law but they ain't got one flea o' Civ'lize.

David Mitchell

#10. If we can't love our one and only home, what can we love? If we're unwilling to defend what we love, then what are we?

Michael Carter

#11. Nothing continues indefinitely. But I think there is always going to be a place for the home TV and there is always going to be a place for the smartphone.

Wyc Grousbeck

#12. I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

Dave Eggers

#13. Always keep in mind its not about how high you can jump, its landing on level ground that matters!

Victoria Addino

#14. Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

Lamar Alexander

#15. That human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.

David Mitchell

#16. This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species went extinct today. They were my kin. They were yours, too. If we know them as such, why aren't we fighting to save them with everything we've got?

Lierre Keith

#17. Always the godfather, never the god,

Gregory Maguire

#18. Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.

Marianne Williamson

#19. There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,
that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

Joseph Addison

#20. The mind is the pit for which all dump trucks go to release their trash

Rosemarie Yusen

#21. Smart'n'Civ'lize ain't nothin' to do with the color o' the skin, nay.

David Mitchell