Quotes About Juvenile Offenders

#1. If you've ever wondered how many prisons need to operate withinin America, just look at the literacy rate. 60% of America's prison inmates are illiterate and 85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems.

United States Dept. Of Education

#2. Write as if your parents are dead.

Anne Lamott

#3. Never say about anything, I have lost it, but only I have given it back.

Epictetus

#4. What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.

Erykah Badu

#5. Most marriage problems are not really marriage problems, they are God problems. They can be traced back to one, or both, having a poor relationship with God, or a faulty understanding of him. An accurate picture of God is vital to a healthy marriage. It's vital to everything.

Francis Chan

#6. I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

Robert Wilson

#7. Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.

James Gleick

#8. Good wine is good. Great wine is great. More wine is better.

Ruth Fertel

#9. The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

Diane Watson

#10. If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

Nigel Kennedy

#11. But it was not to be.

Ravi Zacharias

#12. As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.

Heinz Pagels

#13. To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

Margaret Millar