Checkerboards Quotes & Sayings

Meeting him was a miracle. He was a precious gift sent from God from heaven above! — Lily Amis

Flying to Monterey I had a sharp apprehension of the many times before when I had, like Lincoln Steffens, "come back," flown west, followed the sun, each time experiencing a lightening of spirit as the land below opened up, the checkerboards of the midwestern plains giving way to the vast empty reach between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada; then home, there, where I was from, me, California. It would be a while before I realized that "me" is what we think when our parents die, even at my age, who will look out for me now, who will remember me as I was, who will know what happens to me now, where will I be from. — Joan Didion

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration. — Alexei Navalny

She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear. — Kate Chopin

Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly,
Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley! — Dr. Seuss

When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support. — Scotty McCreery

Its hatred is directed not only against Hindus of the more diverse traditions - the ones that the British, and Rammohan Roy, taught the Hindus to despise - but also, ironically, against the very monotheisms (Islam and Christianity) that nurtured the Hindu insistence that Hinduism is monotheistic. — Wendy Doniger

I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs. — Sharon Jones