Bearis Quotes & Sayings

[On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable? — Doris Lessing

The very comforts the American dream and American Christianity hold out to us are the same ones we must abandon without looking back, daring to trust that a Savior who had no place to lay His head might have the slightest idea what He was talking about. We must trust that He would never lead us astray, — Jen Hatmaker

If you have a bright idea with such significance, don't pause but push, play and display that concept, it will be recognized or be seen somehow and it will not be forsaken.
( Taken from my forthcoming book " Ency Bearis' Ameliorated Poems" ) — Ency Bearis

I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. — Kathe Kollwitz

He says, I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see it in them. There's a luminosity to incest. The taboo is so strong and the damage so great. Luminosity
do you understand? It travels across oceans and down generations. They shine with it. — Emma Brockes

If you are determined to succeed - just remember - success is sealed in a can, it can't be bought, but it must be in your thought, for if you can - you can. — Ency Bearis

I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it. — Bobby Knight

Galen's Prophecy, — Susan Cain

One way to be in good attitude
is with sincere, heart felt gratitude. — Ency Bearis

The distinction of one person's character can be illustrated by
this word : attitude — Ency Bearis