Anria Alfred Quotes & Sayings

If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try to use public property or a public school as a way to impress my religion on other people, I think that violates the constitution. — John Shelby Spong

We gladly conform to the people's needs in all things if it can be done in conformity with the word of God and for the sake of God's kingdom. — Johann Martin Boltzius

Instead of standing on a stage each day, dispensing knowledge to my young charges, I should guide them as they approach their own understandings. — Donalyn Miller

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel. — Evelyn Waugh

I find it very easy to love because I grew up in such a loving family. — Donna Air

Silence
THERE is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave - under the deep, deep sea,
Or in wide desert where no life is found,
Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound;
No voice is hush'd - no life treads silently,
But clouds and cloudy shadows wander free,
That never spoke, over the idle ground:
But in green ruins, in the desolate walls
Of antique palaces, where Man hath been,
Though the dun fox or wild hyaena calls,
And owls, that flit continually between,
Shriek to the echo, and the low winds moan -
There the true Silence is, self-conscious and alone. — Thomas Hood

Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun. — Arna Bontemps

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly. — John Irving

I'm also giggling, which I think I've done maybe never in my lifetime. — Suzanne Collins

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism. — Glenn Reynolds

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't. — Ad Reinhardt

Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it is to be read, and, in the largest sense, what it means. It is essential to remember that characters have a music as well, a pitch and tempo, just as real people do. To make them believable, you must always be aware of what they would or would not say, where stresses would or would not fall. — Marilynne Robinson

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. — Vaclav Hlavaty

In Sungir, Russia, archaeologists discovered in 1955 a 30,000-year-old burial site belonging to a mammoth-hunting culture. In one grave they found the skeleton of a fifty-year-old man, covered with strings of mammoth ivory beads, containing about 3,000 beads in total. On the dead man's head was a hat decorated with fox teeth, and on his wrists twenty-five ivory bracelets. Other graves from the same site contained — Yuval Noah Harari