Arminae Quotes & Sayings

I've been cut down, destroyed, and demolished. Someone once told me that the human mind is like a temple. A sound structure. Compiled by bricks, cement, and straw.
Built by sweating slaves after hours and hours of back-breaking labor.
But I disagree ... I disagree because even the most sound and well-built structures can crumble.
I've had days where I felt like my mind was crumbling in the palms of my hands and I was frantic, with fear and desperate with trembling fingers to put the pieces back together.
I felt like that until my husband saved me.
I want to cherish the way I feel about Elijah forever. — Lauren Hammond

Give my love to the kids, I shout as the door closes, and I've never seen that shade of red on a face. It's quite lovely, actually, I should aim for it more often. — Kiersten White

This tradition argues that education is not just about the passive assimilation of facts and cultural traditions, but about challenging the mind to become active, competent, and thoughtfully critical in a complex world. This model of education supplanted an older one in which children sat still at desks all day and simply absorbed, and then regurgitated, the material that was brought their way. — Martha C. Nussbaum

Never did a tree fall
That did I not feel a pang
For rightly said when they are non man will be gone..
For The very air is replenished by them trees
When they are gone the air will thicken and we all will die
Will become rubbles our forts and tower..
Only weeds and stones to cover
The unsightly mounds we leave..
-Lonesome Gods — Louis L'Amour

Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.] — Thomas Carlyle

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love. — Fiona Apple

WHEN PEOPLE SHOW YOU THEIR TRUE COLORS,
DON'T GO COLOR BLIND — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. — George Herbert Palmer

My career has been over since 1990. — Mike Tyson

He looked at me with sunken eyes, unburdened by any great curiosity and ringed in gray and dark-blue shadows that logged his hard living like tree rings. — Christopher Scotton

One of the true tests to tell if a man's been raised right and is a gentleman is whether he stands when a lady enters the room - or — Lisa Shearin

Childbirth has always been a dangerous undertaking, but at least I've managed to eliminate the most painful part of the process.
What's that? Sex?
Love. — Brian K. Vaughan

I came to understand that I'm never going to be the perfect mother, but I'm going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life. — Shakira

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim — Jeannette Walls

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts. — Dean Koontz