Brydia Dukes Quotes & Sayings

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!
when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!? — Ray Bradbury

I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong to some songs of that order ... Some of my songs should be performed in a pathetic, not a comic style. — Stephen Foster

It's true that gratitude and contentment and self-control don't stop your stomach from grumbling. You want what you want. But the discipline of God teaches you, slowly, to put old appetites to death and to whet new ones. Through the Spirit of Christ you learn to crucify "the flesh with its passions and desires" (Gal. 5:24). — Russell D. Moore

No man can afford to be completely honest until he is financially independent. — James Holding

Theo McLean, fact examiner. If I were harsh, I'd say he was a nerd, but it's not cool to put someone down with labels. But man, he was a nerd. He was smart too. Straight-A smart. Except for gym. — D.J. MacHale

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense. — Jon Secada

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally. — David Morrissey

I want to celebrate in the face of despair, dance when all we see on the horizon is doom. — Shauna Niequist

I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time. — Jodi Benson

People are only mean when they're threatened ... and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture. — Morrie Schwartz.