Burn Unit Quotes & Sayings

It had butterfly wings, like flakes of patterned wax. Under the wings it had a hairy body with tiny horns. Its fur looked very dry in the hot summer rays. It had an ox's head, no bigger than her thumbnail, with a pink muzzle drawn into a grimace. A white splodge between its nostrils. The impossible detail of a scar on its bottom lip. There was warmth and a heartbeat in its body like that of a newborn chick. — Ali Shaw

The small room was furnished with little more than odd smells and disappointment. — Kevin J. Anderson

Have a great imagination and get out of the prison of pervasive reality. — Debasish Mridha

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine. — Emma Donoghue

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert. — Charles Caleb Colton

Intelligence is knowing what's required of you — Julian Pencilliah

Line in nature is not found;
Unit and universe are round;
In vain produced, all rays return;
Evil will bless, and ice will burn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you start to give of yourself, be it ever so simple a fashion, the world will observe your spirit and show you many needs that you can supply. There are a hundred ways of giving away little margins of time you will never miss, which could be riches to someone. — David Dunn

When you find your direction, check to make sure that it is the right one. — Epictetus

I write the sacred words from wondering. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The burn unit is often the most distant wing of a hospital, because burn victims are so susceptible to infection that they must be kept away from other patients. More important, perhaps, is that the placement minimizes the chance of visitors stumbling across a Kentucky Fried Human. — Andrew Davidson

Their words of encouragement were just what I needed. I was doing a great job, and I appreciated their cheers.I felt a dormlike camaraderie in the burn unit, since each of us knew the challenges we were facing like no one else could, and therefore how meaningful each triumph was. — Stephanie Nielson

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families. — Karen Joy Fowler

You may be asking yourselves, 'Who is this man standing before us?' i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life: The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins. — Pope Francis

Knowing where you are won't help you get where you need to be. — Katrina Monroe

Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they are badly governed. Take happy and comfortable people and talk to them with the art of the evil one, and they can soon be made discontented with their government, their rulers, with everything around them, and even with themselves. — Thomas Hutchinson

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. — Robert Morgan