Quotes About The Northwest Ordinance

#1. Then we knew he was lying.

Gary Paulsen

#2. Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

Ray Bradbury

#3. And so Jefferson wrote the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which organized the new territories of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin so that slavery would be permanently illegal there.

Allen C. Guelzo

#4. School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

Willa Cather

#6. The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

Diane Arbus

#7. Since that time Saracen had been making a name for himself. That name was not 'Saracen'. Indeed the name was more along the lines of 'that hell-fowl', 'did-you-see-what-it-did-to-my-leg', 'kill-it-kill-it-there-it-goes' or 'what's-that-chirfugging-goose-done-now'.

Frances Hardinge

#8. I have a great love of the actual.

Manny Farber

#9. It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

Voltaire

#10. I don't know ... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living and growing even though our world is a corpse? That we keep coming back no matter how many of us die?

Isaac Marion

#11. Here's my lesson to you: Don't wish for a knight in shining armor. You'll just end up spending most of your time doing lots of polishing. And that armor tarnishes faster than any other substance on earth; instead, spend that time on yourself.

Christine Zolendz

#12. A number of immunisation programmes are funded and announced by the government and international bodies, but little thought goes into the injecting or delivery mechanism.

Marc Koska

#13. Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

M. Stanton Evans

#14. I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away.

Nastassja Kinski

#15. Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

Richard Morris Hunt

#16. Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to 'image forth'.

Dane Rudhyar

#17. Mothers shouldn't be allowed to get old and fragile.

J.A. Konrath