Beth Little Women Quotes & Sayings

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. — Carol P. Christ

The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex you if you did her wrong, and from her aunts, who might boil up garden toads and slip them into your stew, and from her mother, who was so angry and protective she might just freeze you in time, ensuring that you were forever trapped on the green grass at the age of ten or eleven. — Alice Hoffman

God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage, and women are still coming to their senses a little too late. God alone performed that ceremony, and He alone can hold it together. — Beth Moore

The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved 'Anne of Green Gables,' too; 'What Katy Did;' and 'Peter Pan.' — Helen Oyeyemi

If you dream and you believe, you can do it. — Sean Combs

I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Don't tell me the skies the limit when there are footprints on the moon.

-Aminah Iman — Aminah Iman

Our self illusion is so interwoven with personal memories that when we recall an event, we believe we are retrieving a reliable episode from our history like opening a photograph album and examining a snapshot in time. If we then discover the episode never really happened, then our whole self is called into question. But that's only because we are so committed to the illusion that our self is a reliable story in the first place. — Bruce Hood

Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections. — F.B. Meyer

Then there were her childhood book: Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, What Katy did next, Pollyanna - stories about girls who were good. All Pollyanna had ever done wrong was ruin her parasol. Beth in Little Women was so perfect she was only fit for heaven. Why were girls in novels exemplary, almost saintly? Grace preferred adventure stories, histories and romances about what to do if you were damned and female, tales about women who were kind, likeable and believable, who escaped unpunished. No thin Quakers with lace caps. No beatific consumptives coughing delicately. No unloved, eternally jolly orphans. Grace craved books about girls like herself: good women, normal women in a world bigger and more powerful than themselves. — Wendy Jones

In our society, we no longer pride ourselves on being educated, knowledgable, well-read. We prefer, instead, the illusion of erudition. — Michael Perkins

There's one thing I believe, is that I don't know anything and anything could happen. — Amy Lee

Don't let your pride write a check your heart can't pay for. — R.E. Bradshaw

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain. — Ludwig Von Mises

A community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of individuals. — Augustine Of Hippo

We can never fall short when it comes to recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing our workforce. It is the employees who make our organization's success a reality. — Vern Dosch

Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. — Gisele Bundchen

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid. — Robert Falcon Scott