Alicen Crouse Quotes & Sayings

Listen earnestly to anything [your children] want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff. — Catherine M. Wallace

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans". — Ambrose Bierce

You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors. — Michael Scott

Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen. — Melina Marchetta

There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves in terms of belief; and they make art. Four of them are about conformity, and in these, everything would go more smoothly if people just would shut up and do what they're told. But in art it doesn't work that way. — Jane Smiley

The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric. — Rosemary Mahoney

Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another. — Mason Cooley

As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be. — Julian Of Norwich

The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi. — Larry Brown

Lena's real mom, Emily, knew that this was not the truth, but she also knew that Vaclav was not lying.
Vaclav knew that he was telling the truth.
Lena knew that it was a lie, but she loved it and believed it, like a fairy tale, like a song, like a bedtime story, like a magic trick.
She loved Vaclav until it became the truth and so it was. — Haley Tanner

Whenever a liberal begins a peevish complaint with a throat-clearing equivocation like, "Of course, we all agree," your antennae should go up. This is how liberals couch statements they assume all Americans would demand they make, but which they secretly chafe at. — Ann Coulter

Over my- I was going to say, 'over my dead body,' but-
- michael — Rachel Caine

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. — Lao-Tzu