Brazzini Dinner Quotes & Sayings

Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our way as heaven is higher than the earth, by submissiveness to others for their welfare. It is the source of inexpressible joy and contentment. — V. Raymond Edman

[ ... ] and every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly. — Herman Melville

The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else. — Bennett Cerf

To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge. — Vera John-Steiner

had two reasons. Ned was by himself in this world, except for me, and I didn't want no man and no children spiting him just because he was an orphan. The other reason I never looked at a man, I was barren. An old woman on the place had told me that. I went to her one day and told her how my body act and didn't act. After we had sat down and talked a while, she said one word: "Barren." I went to a doctor and he told me the same thing: "You barren, all right. — Ernest J. Gaines