Emma Willard quote: "There are many females of ability to whom the business of instructing children is highly acceptable; and who would devote all their faculties to their occupation. For they would have no higher pecuniary object to engage their attention; and their reputation as instructors they would consider as important."

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his ...
EMMA WILLARD

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufactu...
EMMA WILLARD

In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that...
EMMA WILLARD

If one seminary should be well organized, its advantages would be found so great that others would s...
EMMA WILLARD

That nature designed for our sex the care of children, she has made manifest by mental as well as ph...
EMMA WILLARD

If, then, women were properly fitted by instruction, they would be likely to teach children better t...
EMMA WILLARD

When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy...
WILLARD SCOTT

When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince inst...
NANCY WILLARD

In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches...
NANCY WILLARD

Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the qu...
NANCY WILLARD

One of the first shows I ever did was 'Laverne & Shirley.' I played this sleazy guy that...
FRED WILLARD

I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich ma...
WILLARD WIGAN

I'd love to have Burt Reynolds' career.
FRED WILLARD

'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved ...
DALLAS WILLARD

I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be...
DALLAS WILLARD

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.
DALLAS WILLARD

We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we ...
DALLAS WILLARD

Reality is what you can count on.
DALLAS WILLARD

The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue....
DALLAS WILLARD

Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like educa...
DALLAS WILLARD

What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the char...
DALLAS WILLARD

When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models...
DALLAS WILLARD

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
DALLAS WILLARD

The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that i...
DALLAS WILLARD

So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, ...
DALLAS WILLARD

Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of pe...
DALLAS WILLARD

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God h...
DALLAS WILLARD

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think...
DALLAS WILLARD

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and char...
DALLAS WILLARD

I always loved comedy growing up - Bob Hope, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye.
FRED WILLARD

I loved Bob Hope and the way he would turn to the camera and break the fourth wall.
FRED WILLARD

I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one ...
FRED WILLARD

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
WILLARD BEECHER

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for ...
WILLARD GAYLEN

Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.
WILLARD BEECHER

Church isn’t where you meet. Church isn’t a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you a...
BRIDGET WILLARD

Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover reg...
DALLAS WILLARD

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
WILLARD GIBBS

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
NANCY WILLARD

When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern...
DALLAS WILLARD

Comedy always came easier for me. But I would have loved to have been an action hero.
FRED WILLARD

It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, w...
FRED WILLARD

When you think about accountants, who would want to be an accountant? But, what would we do without ...
FRED WILLARD

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.
WILLARD SCOTT

Martin Landau in 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' - he gave me chills.
FRED WILLARD

You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues ...
WILLARD LIBBY

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No ...
WILLARD SCOTT

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.
FRED WILLARD

Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actress...
FRED WILLARD

Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts wit...
DALLAS WILLARD

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and lear...
DALLAS WILLARD

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe i...
DALLAS WILLARD

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Hims...
DALLAS WILLARD

We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Chris...
DALLAS WILLARD

The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, b...
DALLAS WILLARD

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
DALLAS WILLARD

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done...
DALLAS WILLARD

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is a...
DALLAS WILLARD

Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for ...
NANCY WILLARD

I've never crossed over to be a big star. I'd like to be in a big $100 million movie, though...
FRED WILLARD

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we s...
DALLAS WILLARD

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as th...
DALLAS WILLARD

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and know...
WILLARD LIBBY

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are co...
DALLAS WILLARD

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociate...
WILLARD GAYLIN

It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty an...
WILLARD BOYLE

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical...
WILLARD SCOTT

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
WILLARD GIBBS

Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bless those who persecut...
DALLAS WILLARD

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank...
WILLARD WIGAN

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they chang...
WILLARD SCOTT

Church isnt where you meet. Church isnt a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Ch...
BRIDGET WILLARD

We get so focused on micromanaging God and His Kingdom that we forget to realize that He is more tha...
BRIDGET WILLARD

Church isnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t where you meet. Church isnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â�...
BRIDGET WILLARD

If my church experience is based upon what they are doing for me, and not what I can do, then pass t...
BRIDGET WILLARD

I bet deep down you still wish your mom would take you clothes shopping every August for the new sch...
BRIDGET WILLARD

I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in a...
WILLARD SCOTT

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ...
WILLARD GAYLIN

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 All angels, all...
DALLAS WILLARD

Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885 I f...
DALLAS WILLARD

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.
FRED WILLARD

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.
WILLARD SCOTT

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
FRANCES WILLARD

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
FRANCES WILLARD

When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.
WILLARD SCOTT

It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?
WILLARD SCOTT

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for...
WILLARD GAYLEN

Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become ful...
DALLAS WILLARD

I first became interested in 'great moments' when I read about the famous Feller-to-Boudreau...
FRED WILLARD

Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that ...
WILLARD SCOTT

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.
WILLARD SCOTT

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.
WILLARD SCOTT

At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a r...
WILLARD WIGAN

There is something endearing about the weatherman.
WILLARD SCOTT

I still think 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' was what they call one of those watershed movies. T...
FRED WILLARD

Expressing anger is a form of public littering. -Willard Gaylin.
WILLARD GAYLIN

Sometimes our driver is the only person that our meals on wheels participants see everyday.
SHARON WILLARD

Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Exp...
WILLARD BOYLE

I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged c...
WILLARD BOYLE

It was very smart what he (Barber) included and changed.
CHRIS WILLARD

The microscopic world became my obsession.
WILLARD WIGAN

When you work at a microscopic level, you have to control every part of your body movement - your fi...
WILLARD WIGAN

When art calls, you have to follow it. It doesn’t happen often, so take the opportunity when it st...
A.M. WILLARD

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.
WILLARD SCOTT

Babe Ruth's orphanage, St. Mary's, still stands outside of Baltimore, and although it's under anothe...
FRED WILLARD

Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.
WILLARD WIGAN

We hope now to put this case behind us. We're producing more power, with fewer emissions — and we'...
WILLARD BOWERS

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the ...
WILLARD BOYLE

In the first round when Dempsey hit me with a left hook, I tried hard to continue, but I was rapidly...
JESS WILLARD

The play is about three different women who live in the same town and whose lives intersect in a lot...
CHRIS WILLARD

Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the co...
FRED WILLARD

In this last movie, I gave it quite a lot of thought to my character, and I fell back on a lot of ma...
FRED WILLARD

I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy ...
FRED WILLARD

I have also always had a fascination with the St. Louis teams; the Cardinals for their Gashouse Gang...
FRED WILLARD

Chris, listen to me, put down the gun and let the marching band go. We'll play it off as a prank.
FRED WILLARD

I think Dabney Coleman is quite baseball-savvy. So is Christopher Guest.
FRED WILLARD

In several TV shows I've done, I'm trying to think of what - just say something here, we need someth...
FRED WILLARD

How do you establish online friends by talking about the weather?
NANCY WILLARD

We are seeing online social norms that support really irresponsible communication. Kids think that o...
NANCY WILLARD

They are more likely to do things online than they would in the real world. It's the 'You can't see ...
NANCY WILLARD

A lot of this experimenting and writing and connecting with other people is a very foundational aspe...
NANCY WILLARD

These activities are causing significant emotional distress to the victims. In some, they are result...
NANCY WILLARD

We would be unilaterally disarming our businesses in the face of stiff competition from Europe, from...
WILLARD WORKMAN

This Is Spinal Tap.
FRED WILLARD

Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use y...
DALLAS WILLARD

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.
WILLARD SCOTT

I just want to take this opportunity to wish a Happy Birthday to all of you out there celebrating yo...
WILLARD SCOTT

No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might someh...
DALLAS WILLARD

Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, bu...
WILLARD SCOTT

We view this as a fairy tale ... a story about damsels who have to fight off the dragons in their li...
CHRIS WILLARD

Most people think small businesses are not involved in international trade and that's just not true....
WILLARD WORKMAN

We like to say thank goodness for that.
JOHN WILLARD

My plate was overflowing, especially with the Mexican chips. Some of the things I didn't like. It wa...
JOHN WILLARD

After 911, the ATA looked at security and concerns that trucks could be used as weapons like in othe...
JOHN WILLARD

After 9/11, the ATA looked at security and concerns that trucks could be used as weapons like in oth...
JOHN WILLARD

The trainer went and did research and found their CDLs had the same issue date and they all had the ...
JOHN WILLARD

We give them basic tips on preventing terrorism in their industry.
JOHN WILLARD

Anytime the wind blows more than 60 mph, something goes awry. We've had a lot of practice, and we're...
JOHN WILLARD

We're just getting ready in case. It's a lot of preparation. Hazel and Donna and all the rest, they ...
JOHN WILLARD

We've had 12 so far, ... We've got about four more people getting out of the water.
JOHN WILLARD

Eventually, your shoreline will be one big boat slip.
WILLARD BOWERS

I try to shy away from playing cranky people, but if it's just a funny next-door neighbor or bus...
FRED WILLARD

And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the hu...
DALLAS WILLARD

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life—if inde...
DALLAS WILLARD

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
DALLAS WILLARD

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an actio...
DALLAS WILLARD

Let's have coffee and talk.
DALLAS WILLARD

When we talk about loving your enemy here, it means something. And we're not sure that you can do th...
DALLAS WILLARD

Look at what is happening here and think of it in terms of real life and how it affected the life of...
DALLAS WILLARD

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
DALLAS WILLARD

The goal is to convey the message to all in the county as often and in any way.
HAROLD WILLARD

When they started hitting those 3s, I just wanted to crawl under the bench. I was looking for a trap...
PHIL WILLARD

In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing ...
DALLAS WILLARD

Obviously nothing is 100 percent effective. But we know that doing nothing is 100 percent ineffectiv...
JOHN WILLARD

We're disappointed, because so many people at this place have put so much into it. It's sobering to ...
WILLARD HOLMES

I've seen reports of children having to change schools. Or children committing suicide. So, ah, yeah...
NANCY WILLARD

Young people don't seem to make a connection with the vulnerability that they can get into by postin...
NANCY WILLARD

But kids who don't have positive real-world relationships will use online social communities to find...
NANCY WILLARD

[This is especially true for teens who post sexy profiles.] They may hook up with a teen their own a...
NANCY WILLARD

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
DALLAS WILLARD

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts
WILLARD GIBBS

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.
FRED WILLARD

We feel very good that the judge vindicated us on four of the five issues.
WILLARD BOWERS

But at some point you've got to put the gun on the table.
WILLARD HOLMES

This is a team filled with role players. My job as the point guard is to get Erin and Addie open loo...
CASSIE WILLARD

I feel like everybody played well. Everybody stepped up. Nobody backed down. That's what I like abou...
CASSIE WILLARD

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
DALLAS WILLARD

Having a phobia has changed me.
WILLARD SCOTT

When we need a policeman, God bless 'em, they're there. But, if you're in the wrong plac...
FRED WILLARD

All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great momen...
FRED WILLARD

Church isnt where you meet. Church isnt a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are...
BRIDGET WILLARD

It was just a heat of the moment thing, two coaches getting caught up in the intensity of the game. ...
RALPH WILLARD

I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.
FRED WILLARD

If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to find a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious...
FRED WILLARD

Some of the Christopher Guest movies, when I'm not really like myself, when I have my hair dyed ...
FRED WILLARD

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the ...
WILLARD WIGAN

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up...
WILLARD LIBBY

Now you do it.
DALLAS WILLARD

Looking back, I was a very good kid, very studious and all. But I would always come out with a quip ...
FRED WILLARD

August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that'...
WILLARD SCOTT

The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform...
WILLARD SCOTT

Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of ...
DALLAS WILLARD

My first impression was that these are great kids, nice personalities. I thought you were student le...
HAROLD WILLARD

We want to get the point across.
HAROLD WILLARD

There was a 17 percent reduction in crime in Orange County eight years after its inception.
HAROLD WILLARD

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without ...
WILLARD SCOTT

It bothers me a great deal. Because I like to think members of the profession are honest. That's wha...
LINDA WILLARD

If somebody is out there practicing as an attorney, and taking money dishonestly from people, the th...
LINDA WILLARD

She's a special kid. She just has that mental toughness.
PHIL WILLARD

Our grandfather asked us to always keep the land for family members to come home to.
MELODY WILLARD

The 'Tim And Eric' experience was very strange.
FRED WILLARD

I've found over the years that for some reason, people either are big fans and have to use me, o...
FRED WILLARD

Our freshmen didn't make plays.
RALPH WILLARD

Each local official donated a certain amount of time, some gave and hour, some gave two hours. Ken M...
SHARON WILLARD

Point guard is a little question mark. But in a crunch situation we still have Darius and Duan capab...
WILLARD COKER

I heard a public hearing was requested last week. I found out yesterday.
WILLARD BOWERS

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.
EMMA ROBERTS

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
EMMA BULL

I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most ama...
EMMA ROBERTS

I don't think I will ever get tired of wearing pink.
EMMA BUNTON

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