Merdivenin Arkadan Quotes

#1. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

Carl Sagan

#2. Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

Ron Taffel

#3. Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

#4. A God-focused attitude is positive and directs you to better the lives of those you love while giving God the glory.

Elizabeth George

#5. Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

Isaiah Berlin

#6. The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

Alice Morse Earle

#7. Heaven is where the reasonable people are!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.

Richard Cecil

#9. At this time to refuse or neglect to give coffee to their wives was a legitimate cause for divorce among the Turks." William H. Ukers (1873-1945).

Stewart Lee Allen

#10. Most of us have nicknames - annoying, endearing, embarrassing.
But what about your true name?
It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.
Ever wonder why?
Your true name has the secret power to call you.

Vera Nazarian

#11. Some days I think she was really miserable, because she cried a lot. In a way, I'd had to steel my heart to her crying. You need to steel yourself to a lot of things when someone in your family is really sick.

Cynthia Kadohata

#12. Always turn and face the attack.

Adolph Malan

#13. Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

Laozi

#14. I couldn't stop thinking about what he'd said. How had a teenage guy figured out what I worked hard to ignore? All in the span of a couple of conversations?

Nicole Williams