Ellen Raskin Quotes

She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn’t for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.

Ellen Raskin

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I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.

Zach Wamp
- Believe
- Strong
- Service
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.

Walker Percy
- Good
- Bad
- Suicide
Obviously, when you break a school record it means a lot. She is amazingly talented. She is doing things that typically takes two or three people to do.

Jack Warner
- School
- Record
- Break
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

Flannery O'Connor
- Way
- Smart
- Books
While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part of the Nation's fundamental law in 1791, what the Framers understood then remains true today - that the task of combating crime and convicting the guilty will in every era seem of such critical and pressing concern that we may be lured by the temptations of expediency into forsaking our commitment to protecting individual liberty and privacy.

William J. Brennan, Jr.
- Today
- Commitment
- Liberty
Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.

Sarah Dessen
- Dad
- Shoot
- Messenger