Brattain Fire Quotes & Sayings

For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn't until my teens that I met and got to know better members of my extended family (my cousin Alma in particular) that self- identified as artists. Something in us clicked together; in the way we thought, in the language we chose to use, in what we enjoyed. She helped me see and appreciate a lot both about myself and my loved ones. — E.J. Bonilla

The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God. — John Piper

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way — James MacDonald

I paint only what I love.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty! — Emily Bronte

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken. — Max Stirner

Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul. — Gianna Carini

The problems in describing a person are essentially problems of knowing a person. — Donald Antrim

We can best understand the nature of this culture if we say that it found its truest mirror in a corpse — Salman Rushdie

No one should ever be wrongfully deprived of their rights to liberty and freedom without just cause, yet in the past 25 years alone thousands of people have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to tens of thousands of years in prison. — Bernard B. Kerik

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I will need more than this, O God. If you love me as Aneaxi said, please send me something to go on. Something soon. — Rae Carson

It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us ... — Joseph Stalin

All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for they more lively rot. Even virtue is no longer such if it be stagnant. A man's life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant. — Henry David Thoreau

Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are. — Parker J. Palmer