Julia Lathrop quotes

Julia Lathrop quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The Justice of today is born of yesterday's pity.”
-- Julia Lathrop

Source : Julia Lathrop (1974). “The United States Children's Bureau, 1912-1972”, Ayer Co Pub

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“... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders.”
-- Julia Lathrop

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“We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.”

Source : Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2013). “Unveiling the End Times in Our Time: The Triumph of the Lamb in Revelation”, p.27, B&H Publishing Group
“Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.”
“But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.”

Source : Alexandra Ripley (1992). “Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind”, Macmillan Reference USA
“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
“Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”
“I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.”
“How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?”
“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.”
“If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.”

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