Tarbiyah School Quotes

#1. Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.'
-Thaddeus

Paul Collins

#2. Staring at him the
way she might stare at a beloved place she
was not sure she would ever see again, trying
to commit the details to memory, to paint
them on the backs of her eyelids that she
might see it when she shut her eyes to sleep.

Cassandra Clare

#3. We live in a society where we don't want to commit to another person for life. We do at the moment that we marry, but less and less people marry. We marry later, we marry less. On some level of the unconscious, we know there is less of a chance that a marriage will be life-long.

Marilyn Yalom

#4. The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

Angela Davis

#5. A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

#6. The softest grass can break any stone in her quest to find the sun. Rise again, woman, RISE AGAIN!

Autumn Morning Star

#7. The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

James Joyce

#8. We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty

Benito Mussolini

#9. What my wife desires--and what you should have guessed, had you paid attention--is bookcases. And books, of course, to fill them. Not more decorations or useless items. She wants books.

Cynthia Hand

#10. For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

Laura Hillenbrand

#11. I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

Carlos Slim