Bowketts Quotes & Sayings

My life had gone to bits and I was so unrecognizable to myself that I probably couldn't have picked me out of a police lineup. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution. — Aristotle.

Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade.
Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you. — Laini Taylor

What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead. — Okey Ndibe

The ancient trees are the deep earth's language for speaking to the universe. The earth communicates through trees to the animals and to the birds living above - and to the very heavens. The trees draw the earth's water up from the ground. Then breathing, they return it to the air for the clouds and the blessed rain that falls to begin the cycle anew. She thinks of the thin layer of living things as a fragile space between earth's molten rock core and the frozen outer universe of stars. The thin layer is like her own life here - precious, finite — J.J. Brown

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. — Billy Collins

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them. — Dale Archer

Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on! — Benjamin

The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else. — Sri Chinmoy

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself. — Charles Simeon

The earth is the Lord's. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. — Hans Hofmann

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push ... You live, you help. — Ram Dass

They were drinking, laughing and dancing, but I was sitting alone in the corner and talking to your soul. — M.F. Moonzajer

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice. — Simone Weil