Quotes About Public School Prayer

#1. The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

Jon Meacham

#2. [The Front Page] is still full of peppy banter as it sends its seedy knights after cheap scoops.

Jay Carr

#3. Obama took a tour of the Great Wall of China and said, 'We need one of these things around the White House.'

David Letterman

#4. All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

Xavier Dolan

#5. I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.

Billy Campbell

#6. America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.

Adam Mansbach

#7. [The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

Joyce Meyer

#8. Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

Richard Russo

#9. I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

Bonnie Raitt

#10. A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

Sam Ervin

#11. To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.

Paul Stanley

#12. I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

David Sedaris

#13. In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#14. If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

Boyd K. Packer

#15. Those that say it is the taking part and not the winning that is important are, for me, wrong. It is the other way round.

Tony Adams

#16. His phone rang again, and he turned it on speaker. "Adair residence - "
"Shut up, Cabe." Silas's voice filled the car. "Your Lexus isn't a residence, and I know you're driving, because I'm watching your GPS dot move down the road.

Jane Washington

#17. Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.

Robert A. Heinlein

#18. The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.

Scarlett Pomers