Quotes About Dedication

That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest she over-sleeps herself or goes off on a picnic.

That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seeds, but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest, she oversleeps herself or goes off on a picnic.

Somewhere between six one evening and eight-thirty next morning, beside his dressing and his dinner and his guests and his sleep, he had read a volume of three-hundred-and-odd pages, and

Leaves, lines, and rhymes, seek her to please alone, Whom if ye please, I care for other none.

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There were Marys and Marthas, but Marys got all the limelight because of being Christ's handmaiden, but Marthas were far more sincere.

Aunt Maud was a schoolteacher during her working life. For forty years she taught in the white public schools in New Orleans. English was her subject, mainly, and in retirement, genealogy became her vocation. She was quiet and inward. Maud never married, she had no children. Our ancestors were her offspring.

Do you like being a cop? I love it, when it doesn't suck, sir.

Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.

The Bootmakers of Toronto, copyright © 2006 by Edward D. Hoch.

I was a student of the civil law; but my soul was inflamed with the love of letters;

A woman born to teaching wakes in the morning desperate to be near her pupils. I was that way. I am that way. I have told my own children and my husband to put on my grave marker 'Mother' and 'Teacher.' That before all else, even my own name. And if the chiseler has room, to have him put 'Wife.' 'Wife' below my name. 'Dutiful Wife,' if he can manage it.

We are measured not only by our triumphs, young man, but by our persistence. If we fail, we must try harder.

This book is respectfully dedicated to those now rebuilding the monastic community of Optina Pustyn.

Sometimes we would prefer to die for Jesus than to live for Him.

She cannot stay out of duty. The things one does, one should do out of love.

That is about all I have learned—to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.

There is no piety in the world which is not the result of cultivation, and which cannot be increased by the degree of care and attention bestowed upon it.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

An achievement is bondage.It obliges one to a higher achievement.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.