Grace Abbott Quotes

#1. In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.

Donald Rumsfeld

#2. I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

Andy Goldsworthy

#3. 'Twenty One Pilots' is a play by Arthur Miller, who also wrote 'All My Sons.' It's about a guy who's creating and developing parts for airplanes in war time, when it comes to his attention that some of these parts were faulty.

Josh Dun

#4. Misplaced effort in the spiritual life often consists in stubbornly insisting upon compulsive routines which seem to us to be necessary because they accord with our own short-sighted notions.

Thomas Merton

#5. Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.

Asa Don Brown

#6. In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. Then let amorous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred, and a Thousand more.

Diana Gabaldon

#8. The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Grace Abbott

#9. The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

Grace Abbott

#10. Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Grace Abbott

#11. It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.

Ina May Gaskin

#12. Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.

Grace Abbott

#13. You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's really smart or illuminating. I don't read any reviews anymore and it's been really liberating.

Anna Quindlen

#14. Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

Grace Abbott

#15. I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

Rufus Wainwright

#16. The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

T. S. Eliot

#17. I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

June Carter Cash

#18. People are saying that Rick Perry is really tough because he has executed over 200 people. And that was just while he was on vacation in Florida.

Conan O'Brien

#19. The word priority was singular for 500 years - what does priorities mean - 'many many first things.'

Greg McKeown

#20. I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Grace Abbott