Bds Modules Quotes & Sayings

As a child I read hoping to learn everything, so I could be like my father. I hoped to combine my father's grasp of information and reasoning with my mother's will and vitality. But the books were leading me away. They would propel me right out of Pittsburgh altogether, so I could fashion a life among books somewhere else. So the Midwest nourishes us ... and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run to our bedrooms and read in a fever, and love the big hardwood trees outside the windows, and the terrible Midwest summers, and the terrible Midwest winters, and the forested river valleys, with the blue Appalachian Mountains to the east of us and the broad great plains to the west. And so we leave it sorrowfully, having grown strong and restless by opposing with all our will and mind and muscle its simple, loving, single will for us: that we stay, that we stay and find a place among its familiar possibilities. — Annie Dillard

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest. — Katy Perry

sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty — Jeffrey D. Sachs

Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future. — Martin Luther King Jr.

To be clear, Goodreads staff have not been deleting any posts. A value we've always had here is that we don't censor content (unless it's against our policies - eg porn, etc). [April 1, 2013] — Otis Y. Chandler

At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens. — Jane Hirshfield

You're flightier than a hummingbird on crack. — Lou Harper

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think ... Let us dare to read, think, speak, write. — David McCullough

I cook this food with love and affection, for those I serve, I ask protection. — Deborah Blake

I was always aware of what the language I was using meant in terms of my bond with my parents - how it defined the lines of affection between us. When I spoke English, I felt I wasn't completely their child any more but the child of another language. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegian nightclub and having cans of lager thrown at me. — Sean Maguire

True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring. — Elizabeth George

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death. — Walker Percy

French people are Italian people in a bad mood. — Jean Cocteau