Principal Blackman Quotes

#1. And you became like the coffee,
In the deliciousness,
and the bitterness
and the addiction.

Mahmoud Darwish

#2. The early Christian patriarchs may not have realized that, in attempting to suppress ecstatic practices, they were throwing out much of Jesus too.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#3. A hot man like that was made for more than friendship.

Sara Humphreys

#4. High time he had another tutor,' said Larry. 'You leave the house for five minutes and come back and find him disembowelling Moby Dick on the front porch.' 'I'm sure he didn't mean any harm,' said Mother, ' but it was rather silly for him to do it on the veranda.

Gerald Durrell

#5. When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence

J.F. Kennedy

#6. It is the peculiar privilege of the Church, to know what the Divine judgments mean, and what is their tendency.

John Calvin

#7. If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Austin O'Malley

#8. Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

Jonathan Raban