Birdies Nolensville Quotes & Sayings

8. Santa Claus is concerned about the problem of Arctic ice. The ice is the spouse of the elves, and she is sick. She is the primary source of their magic, as the elves cannot be separated from the place where they live. For many years now, this is all they have asked for for Christmas: that the ice should come back — Catherynne M Valente

Fear is an affirmation of your growth. — Rhonda Britten

My investments have been hurt. — Scott Adams

I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of Country Music moved me. Even when I was a kid, I liked the sad songs ... songs that talked about true life. I recognized this music as a simple plea. It beckoned me. — Harlan Howard

I want you, Isis. Not as a friend. Not as an enemy. But as the most beautiful girl I've ever known. — Sara Wolf

It seems to me that Christians in the West are being coddled. We suffer little in the name of Christ. Therefore, we read the Bible not with a desperate hunger for evidences of God's triumph in pain, but with a view to improving our private pleasures. — John Piper

Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying. — Wil S. Hylton

If you look at your average contemporary person, the potential for tragedy is immense. The people and things we love and value are strewn across the globe. Any number of health disasters can befall you or them.
The truth is depressing. We are going to die, most likely after illness; all our friends will likewise die; we are tiny insignificant dots on a tiny planet. Perhaps with the advent of broad intelligence and foresight comes the need for confabulation and self-deception to keep depression and its consequent lethargy at bay. There needs to be a basic denial of our finitude and insignificance in the larger scene. It takes a certain amount of chutzpah just to get out of bed in the morning. — William Hirstein

Just remember to keep your eye out for ways to maximize your schedule freedom in the long term. — Scott Adams

No other ethnic group has even come close to matching the abilities and accomplishments of Jews. — H.W. Charles

Mommy is one of the chosen people ... and daddy believes that Jesus is magic! — Sarah Silverman

He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated. — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

Or even on the same evening? Five nights ago the Voice had said, You of all understand me. You of all understand power, — Anne Rice

One sign that I am violating my own nature in the name of nobility is a condition called burnout. Though usually regarded as the result of trying to give too much, burnout in my experience results from trying to give what I do not possess-the ultimate in giving too little! Burnout is a state of emptiness, to be sure, but it does not result from giving all I have: it merely reveals the nothingness from which I was trying to give in the first place. — Parker J. Palmer

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. — Tom Allen