Abeel Street Quotes & Sayings

[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth to mean story, without attaching any connotation of truth or falsehood to it; but a myth is a story of a certain kind. The myths of a culture are those stories it takes seriously - the ones that are thought to be a key to its identity. — Margaret Atwood

I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man. — Bob Seger

The scriptures, said Paul to Timothy, are given for "correction" and "instruction in righteousness."3 They are likened by the Psalmist to a lamp that illuminates, that lights our path.4 Scriptures beckon, inspire, and edify. — Terryl L. Givens

People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love. — Dr. Seuss

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love. — Myrtle Reed

A brick could be dropped at the feet of your enemy, as a gift, as an insult, as a way of saying "I'll tear down the wall between us - and tear down the walls of your life." Then you might try offering him a cheese sandwich. — Jarod Kintz

The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is well to be attentive to successive ambitions that flood the growing boy's and girl's imagination. They leave profound traces behind them. During those years when the first sap is rising the future tree is foreshadowing its contour. We are shaped by the promises of imagination. — Thornton Wilder

You can coddle your child and tell them, 'You're the best no matter what.' But in the end, when they go out into the real world, I think it's pretty tough out there and other children are cruel. — Amy Chua

[O]ne should never wait for life. Dare to live dangerously. You never know what mysteries could be waiting in the shadows. — Elizabeth Hunter

I had a dream about you last night ... shortly after I woke up screaming in terror. — Amy Summers

I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke. — Jenifer Lewis