Adoptees Searching Quotes & Sayings

When there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants. — Ellen Wittlinger

Identifying the new virus was only step one in solving the immediate mystery of Hendra, let alone understanding the disease in a wider context. Step two would involve tracking that virus to its hiding place. Where did it exist when it wasn't killing horses and people? Step three would entail asking a further cluster of questions: How did the virus emerge from its secret refuge, and why here, and why now? — David Quammen

But to reject, marginalize, trivialize, or be suspicious of the sacraments (and quasi-sacramental acts such as lighting a candle, bowing, washing feet, raising hands in the air, crossing oneself and so forth) on the grounds that such things CAN be superstitious or idolatrous or that some people might suppose they are putting God in their debt, is like rejecting sexual relations in marriage on the grounds that it's the same act that in other circumstances constitutes immorality. — N. T. Wright

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other. — Joshua L. Liebman

Nothing is more dishonourable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age. — Seneca.

I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer. — Bryce Dallas Howard

hell is boiling over. And heaven is full. We're chained to the world. And we all gotta pull. And we're all gonna be ...just dirt in the ground". — Tom Waits

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is. — Barack Obama

I'm a big breakfast person: Eggs, bacon and yogurt is my go-to meal before a round. On the course, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches are great for energy, but a protein bar works, too. — Lexi Thompson