Avulsed Quotes & Sayings

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents. — Abigail Adams

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin

It is early in November of 1942 and a simply unbelievable amount of shit is going on, all at once, everywhere. — Neal Stephenson

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy. — Ruby Rose

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. — Alice Walker

If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours. — Stephen Baxter

Vilnius was once known as 'The Jerusalem of Lithuania' because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the 20th century, it became a center of Yiddish-language scholarship. — Elizabeth McCracken