Ankeny Ia Quotes & Sayings

His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a wound, and slide sensually across bare skin. — Richelle Mead

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country. — Gretchen Wilson

The Council Wars era from 1983 to 1986 and the brief months from 1986 to 1987 when Mayor Washington gained control over the council were among the most dramatic periods in Chicago's history. Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, women, and homosexuals gained real power at City Hall for the first time. Opposition to Reaganomics and support for the city as a nuclear weapons-free zone were led by the mayor and his department heads, not just opposition groups. The growth machine of the old Chicago regime, which favored urban growth focused on major public works projects and development in the downtown Loop area, was replaced by a balanced program of neighborhood, as well as downtown, economic development.33 — Dick Simpson

Tomorrow is tomorrow and today is today. Tomorrow will come and we shall still say today. Worry not yourself about tomorrow but today! Plan your tomorrow today and tomorrow will never be a regretful yesterday for you. Those who least plan their tomorrow today always meet tomorrow and still live in yesterday. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It's hard to give a career like this up, when I tell my wife I'm going to the office, and it's the beach. — Karch Kiraly

Damn. Is everyone in this world a secret prepper?" I asked him. "No, the zombies are the neighbors who never prepped! Those are the ones you gotta worry about. The rest of us go along to get along. — Boyd Craven

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. — Isaac Newton

How you perceive The Father to be, determines what you believe you'll receive from Him."
From "Freedom for LIFE -all of God, inside you — T. Everett Smith

Competing, to me is just a mentality that says you never back down. — Shannon Higgins-Cirovski

Fragments of a conversation she had left a little earlier (on Rilke, not Rilke's poetry but Rilke the man, who refused to be psychoanalyzed for fear of purging his genius); — William Gaddis

Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"
they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108) — Cornel West