Blackwater By Eve Bunting Quotes & Sayings

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass. — Thomas Adams

As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay. — Saul Bellow

The sixth gift is Joy. May it keep your heart open and filled with light. — Charlene Costanzo

One of the most celebrated victims of this theocratic policy was Shelley (1792-1811) who was expelled from University College, Oxford, for writing a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism. — Christopher Hitchens

How soon, sugar, the terrible becomes routine. We've all got this dangerous built-in talent: for turning horrors into errands. You hear folks wonder how the Germans could have done it? I believe part of the answer is: They made extermination be a nine-to-five activity. You know, salaries? Lunch breaks? And the staff came and did their job and went home and ate supper and slept and woke and came back and did their job and went home and ate their supper and slept and woke and came back and did their job.
That's partly how you get anything done, especially a chore what's dreadful, dreadful.
Honey? we've all got to be real careful of what we can get used to. — Allan Gurganus

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. — Erik Larson

I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick." — Franz Drameh

I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation. — Leigh Steinberg

It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store. — Hosea Ballou

I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked. — Anne Lamott