F. F. Bruce Quotes
We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.
Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.
Walk in the rain, smell flowers, stop along the way, build sandcastles, go on field trips, find out how things work, tell stories, say the magic words, trust the universe.
A strong work ethic is a form of accountability, because it involves keeping a promise to one's employer. It is not the same thing as workaholism.
One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.
Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference.
I don’t know if you picked up on the elephant in the room… but we’re witches. Angela, Andrea, me, and Evelyn and Celia back home.”--Aunt Maddy from The Ragtime Coven
There are people who walk this Earth who truly belong in Hell. Sometimes, we have to move ‘em along a little… point the way.” --Vernon Kraft, Avenging Angel from The Ragtime Coven
People who buy the little jars and boxes aren’t staying. They only want enough to last them while they’re here.”--Ginger the Checkout girl from The Great Northern Coven
This whole kissing process was turning out to be far more complicated and stressful than I'd thought it would be.
We must search the scriptures, accepting them as the mind and will and voice of the Lord and the very power of God unto salvation.
Signal transduction science recognizes that the fate and behavior of an organism is directly linked to its perception of the environment.
Before an empty tomb, we will come to know that Christ our Lord has burst the bands of death and stands forever triumphant over the grave.
His rising from death on the third day crowned the Atonement. Again, in some way incomprehensible to us, the effects of his resurrection pass upon all men so that all shall rise from the grave.
Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young man sits in one.
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up
BALLS! We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them HERE, and we want them NOW.
Don't worry about the smallest size that light can be, it will chase away the darkness.
What kind of dark, twisted mind preys on young women? I think it was Poe that said the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical thing in the universe, and if that was true… I was John Milton.
What this letter does is bring us into an atmosphere in which the institution could only wilt and die. The Letter to Philemon
But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.
. . .the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.
My only regret is that I don't have more to regret.
You’re a loner in body, mind, and soul. A writer who spends a day of solitude in the office is plagued by a mind that travels with the body. The work never stops.
Individuals are told to reduce our "carbon footprint, " and we should. But how many years of riding a bike to work would it take me to offset one F-15 flying for an hour?
Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.
Relentless criticism in childhood can internalize a parental scorn that no amount of success will silence.
Our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives...
We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.
You can't reinvent yourself using spare parts..."--Barry Randall from My Father's Ashes
pg. 301--"Saturday the weather couldn't decide if it was ready to fully entertain winter or if we were still stuck in the fall."pg.349--"...winter showed up in an angry, punishing fury...
His studies were always second to Beatrice. He would've said everything was second to Beatrice but the flowery metaphors and literary devices can only stretch so far and for so many characters.
Every name looks fashionable when it's etched in silver. (Stanley Cup)
Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do.So let's make our steps clear so the other may see.And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.
I knew I was going to be a cellular biologist whose research would focus on scrutinizing every nuance of the cell's ultrastructure to gain insights into the secrets of cellular life.
....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do.
Family isn't blood, " she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.
Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it.
