Calliandra Estates Quotes & Sayings

As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know. — Natalia Ginzburg

Nowadays we go to a movie and must watch commercials first. The relaxed, receptive state of surrender we like to reserve for the [...] film [...] is now given over to advertising where our senses and our sensibilities are assaulted against our will — Bell Hooks

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail. — Aisha Tyler

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. - RUMI — Jandy Nelson

I've had the same car for five years - it's a convertible Jag which I bought with my own money. It's very Austin Powers. — Beyonce Knowles

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet. — Eileen Myles

Thorne blinked at her, then down at the sewage he could barely make out in the darkness. "Don't you have some tool in that fancy hand of yours that can get us across?"
Cinder glared, light-headed from her body's instinctively short breaths. "Oh, wow, how could I have forgotten about my grappling hook? — Marissa Meyer

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes. — Elisabeth Elliot

Theology is an attempt to hack god's mind and look at the universe as he does; god's firewalls are so strong no attempt has ever been successful. — Bangambiki Habyarimana