Copyist Christy Quotes

#1. I had come to learn pretty quickly that life has its highs and lows just like the ocean does and sometimes you just have to see how far they'll carry you.

C.A. Williams

#2. With persistent focus and determined spirit, you can achieve the God-given goals.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Everyone gets knocked down, but only the strong get up.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. Education that gives priority to measurement rather than values, to efficiency rather than conscience, to information rather than ethics, provides no barrier to barbarity and violence. The Holocaust was perpetrated by a society of the most disciplined, highly educated people on earth.

Dee Hock

#5. No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#6. I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

Thornton Wilder

#7. What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.

Josef Koudelka

#8. There can be no place for self entirely

Horatio Nelson

#9. In 1945, when the male soldiers started coming back home from Europe, she and all the other women pilots that had served as WASPs during the war were unceremoniously told to go home and never received a dime or even thanks from the government.

Fannie Flagg

#10. The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

Phil McGraw

#11. If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.

Susanne Bier