Quotes About Impact

the force it takes to pull a trigger is out of all proportion to the force of the bullet that does the killing.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

You know, no one ever appreciates you until you're gone.

All I have to do is say the word and no record label will ever touch Bad Luck. You'll be out of business faster than the fat one from N'Sync.

One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.

This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so painful. We're showing them how to accomplish the ritual murder of ourselves.

Emotion is contagious.

Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine.

The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.

Thriving isn't about making life comfortable, fun and happy; it's about finding purpose and making our own unique contribution.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

the sweat of one person has significance only when it serves everybody.

Embracing small personal changes can be the first step toward creating greater change in the world, and humanity at large.

I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

That was all it took – a shower of rain, the slam of a door, the thrust of a knife or a gunshot – and just like that, a person could be gone with nothing but the memories of others to show that they'd ever existed.

If you can only have one, which means more to you? Being someone or making a difference -Lynny

Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

Thoughts can creep up on you, or they can hit harder than a wrecking ball.

A word Dad had used. But it was a word that had hurt my best friend. A word that was now hurting me so very, very much. I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this.

With each day, I give thanks for the blessings of life—the blessings of another day and the chance to do something with it. Something good. Something significant. Something helpful. No matter how small it might seem. I want to keep making a difference.

I have left something of myself in all the children I have touched.

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

His aura was too bright and his masculine force affected me physically," Angelou recalled years later. ?A hot desert storm eddied around him and rushed to me, making my skin contract, and my pores slam shut. . . . His hair was the color of burning embers and his eyes pierced.

You put high heels on and you change.