24 Quotes by John Pipkin

It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.

The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past.

But if watching the sky is to be his duty, how should he begin? Now and then he has spotted one of the five bright planets or recognized a constellation, but he knows little about the turning of the heavens. When he contemplates the great distances between this and that, and the vast multitude of solitary objects spread over the celestial dome, he cannot fathom how one goes about searching for what is yet unknown.

No one wants gangs in the schools. Our teachers have gone through training (to recognize signs of gang activity) and our principal stays ahead of the game on that issue.

The only real damage done was to a day of school for our students.

the presence of a police car in front of the school didn't fuel some of the rumors.