Caged Bird Important Quotes & Sayings

The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name! — Abraham Kuyper

Knowing there is no cavalry is much better than hoping for a cavalry that never comes. I am strong because I have to be. I am the cavalry. (314) — Monica Holloway

Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps,
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth,
Sweet is revenge
especially to women — George Gordon Byron

Twenty two year old Connie Jones, who had boarded in the home of charismatic Methodist and pacifist Ormond Burton, was a member of the No More War movement and the Christian Pacifist Society. She first attended the Friday night public meetings at which the pacifists argued their case in 1941. She stepped onto the podium, stating, "the Lord Jesus Christ tells us to love one another," and was promptly arrested by Wellington's chief inspector of police. Charged with obstruction under the Emergency Regulations, she was sentenced to three months' hard labour with harsh conditions at the Point Halswell Reformatory - an experience that did nothing to dampen her commitment to pacifism. — Barbara Brookes

This is why, when we have been particularly impressed by a book, we feel the need to talk about it; we do not want to get away from it by talking about it - we simply want to understand more clearly what it is in which we have been entangled. We have undergone an experience, and now we want to know consciously what we have experienced. Perhaps this is the prime usefulness of literary criticism - it helps to make conscious those aspects of the text which would otherwise remain concealed in the subconscious; it satisfies (or helps to satisfy) our desire to talk about what we have read. — Wolfgang Iser

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally. — Jane Kaczmarek

It's not what we say is a priority, but what we actually DO that's a priority. — J.D. Roth

The best kisses have something behind it - maybe something has been smoldering for a while, and it's about to happen. — Brett Davern

Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me. — Ernest Holmes

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lovely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. — Bette Davis

There is little blood in my arm, Isabella repeated. — Virginia Woolf

When I used to have braces, I would match my rubber bands to the season. — Brad Goreski

Remember that Little can easily feel abandoned. She needs to feel taken care of all the time. That means talking to Little as an ongoing practice. — Susan Andersen