School Inauguration Quotes

#1. From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.

Edgar Cayce

#2. Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

Kenny Chesney

#4. The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

John Banville

#5. I write poems to find out why I write them

Stephen Dobyns

#6. Above all, such an understanding of loneliness should help liberate us. It should teach us that loneliness is both a good and a natural force in our lives.

Ronald Rolheiser

#7. Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.

George Martin

#8. War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

Dan Simmons

#9. I remember, particularly, a trip to Bosnia where the welcoming ceremony had to be moved inside because of sniper fire.

Hillary Clinton

#10. If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.

Cate Blanchett

#11. Building castles in the air is useless unless you have a ladder to reach them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes to be turned out of the mayor's office by virtue of his election to the United States Senate.

Gail Sheehy

#13. Cake is not the issue here.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

Grant Cardone

#15. South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and support positions. Women began to take on combat roles in the 1990s when the three military academies, exclusive to men, began accepting women.

Kim Young-ha

#16. When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

Paula Poundstone