9ll Quotes & Sayings

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

We are creatures of air, Our roots in dreams And clouds, reborn In flight. — Salman Rushdie

into her bed purely for informational — Cathryn Fox

Jesus Christ. If he can play, I got to play, too. — Joe Pepitone

As a first-generation Ethiopian immigrant, Sheba had lived in Charleston since she turned five years of age. She was Ethiopian by birth, but American by preference. She had worked hard, studied and sacrificed plenty to get where she was today, no easy feat for someone who had just celebrated her twenty-sixth birthday. According to her friends, Sheba was a beauty, though when she looked in the mirror, she saw inevitable flaws; her cheekbones were too pronounced, her mouth a little too wide, her nose with that perturbing slant to it. Still, she accepted compliments gratefully, especially from her roommate, Janelle. Janelle was the true beauty, Sheba thought, with dark ebony skin so smooth that she could be a walking ad for Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate. — Joanna Hynes

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable. — Roger Ebert

I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am. — Veronica Roth

I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get average Americans if you have a draft. And if it's an all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don't have anything else to do, they don't have a job, or they can't find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn't produce the best Army. — Andy Rooney

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them. — Laurie Halse Anderson

[T]his impulse toward spiritual intimacy is found not only in the Abrahamic faiths, but in Buddhism, Hinduism, and native religions. Far too many people who understand God in these ways probably do not know how rich the tradition is that speaks of God with us, God in the stars and sunrise, God as the face of their neighbor, God in the act of justice, or God as the wonder of love. The language of divine nearness is the very heart of vibrant faith. Yet it has often been obscured by vertical theologies and elevator institutions, which, I suspect, are far easier to both explain and control. Drawing God within the circle of the world is a messy and sometimes dangerous business. — Diana Butler Bass

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
— Corrie Ten Boom

When it comes to 'Glee,' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit. — Lea Michele

The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand. — Clive James

Aristotle would clear up this moral confusion in an Athenian minute. Happiness, he believed, meant not only feeling good but doing good. Thus, the pedophile and the suicide bomber only thought they were happy. In fact, they were not happy at all. — Eric Weiner