Acyd Construction Quotes & Sayings

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner. — Max Lerner

President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world ... ' (Gospel Ideals, Salt Lake City: Improvement Era, 1953, pp. 453-54). — H. Burke Peterson

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain. — Susan Sontag

I will protect your sister and your vicious Grandmother with my life," Viper promised stiffly. — Anonymous

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't. — Robert Breault

I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through. — Missy Elliott

I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons. — Jim Elliot

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. — Laura Miller

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. — Albert Einstein

Echoes are more noisy than the source. — Toba Beta

I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man. — Theodore Roosevelt

In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet. — Horace Mann

Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white show, and this isn't about bad guys and good guys, but it's about good men being capable of bad things and vice versa, I wanted to be in a city that had contradiction. — Veena Sud