Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

Elizabeth Goudge

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• Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Children
  • Money
  • High

• Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Help
  • Culture
  • Wait

• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Thanks

• When you literally build a state of granite, it takes a certain toughness and perseverance as well as a unique blend of community and independence: a culture that also helps spur economic growth.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Growth

• When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • German

• Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Life
  • Child
  • Mask

• the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.

  

  Lady Caroline Lamb
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Book
  • Pleasure
  • Laughter

• Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Bad
  • Religion
  • Conscience

• Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

  

  Reza Aslan
  • Religion
  • Stories
  • Understood

• People just get kicks out of making other people sad.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Sad
  • Just

• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Why
  • Home
  • Sports

• There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

  

  Gabe Paul
  • You
  • Place
  • Second Place

• A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Religion
  • Terror
  • Deserving