Wagenheim Scholarship Quotes

#1. My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

Daniel Radcliffe

#2. No worries. They don't scare me. (Devyn) All right, but if my brain matter ends up smeared against a wall, I'll never forgive you. (Alix)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. Too many people surrender to a place of safety. That place where all they do is long to sleep so they can dream about living.

Kim Fay

#4. As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.

Susan Oliver

#5. The white man's God was a lot like him. He never for a second figured there was anyone else already here. He figured it was all just here waiting for Him to do whatever He wanted to with it. And boy, do white people love to do stuff, jut to do it.

R.S. Belcher

#6. When the store was empty again, I buried my head in my hands. I hadn't realized how much Josh had been helping me get through the summer until he wasn't there anymore. I wanted him to ask me how the Sky was. And then I wanted him to make it stop raining.

Heather Demetrios

#7. If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

Jay Griffiths

#8. Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?

Bo Burnham

#9. I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.

Carson Kressley

#10. We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

Carre Otis

#11. The animate and inanimate creation all contribute to the true worship of God. All of creation must worship at whatever level of sentience they possess. Jesus said if men held back their praise, even the stones might "cry out" in worship.

Ed Buckner

#12. God, Jonah, keep up.

Emery Lord

#13. The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

Al Alvarez

#14. Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

Dean Karnazes