Cat Quotes - Page 45

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given, as it were, a foretaste of the beauty of the heavenly liturgy. The act of adoration outside Mass prolongs and intensifies all that takes place during the liturgical celebration itself.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

If you can laugh at yourself, you are going to be fine. If you allow others to laugh with you, you will be great.

The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results.

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat?

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.