Eglantyne Jebb Quotes

#1. Long as you're not afraid, nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things.

Tom Robbins

#2. You know, the guys there were so beautiful - they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.

Allen Ginsberg

#3. We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

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#4. Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

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#5. Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

Marty Rubin

#6. I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.

William Shakespeare

#7. To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won't have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do.

Phyllis Diller

#8. But there was no curiosity in those faces, and no anger, and no mercy.

Ayn Rand

#9. One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

Val Kilmer

#10. Every war is a war against children.

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#11. All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

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#12. Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds

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#13. I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.

Ed Koch

#14. Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always will be. We know. It's impossible only if we make it so. It's impossible only if we refuse to attempt it.

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#15. Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.

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#16. Modesty is the color of virtue.

Diogenes

#17. The only international language in the world is a child's cry,

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#18. great intelligence in a writer if his similes

Arthur Schopenhauer

#19. All wars are waged against children

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#20. You've got so much up ahead
You'll make new friends
You should see your kids and wife
And I'd end up saying have no fear
These are nowhere near the best years of your life

Brad Paisley