Coddler Song Quotes & Sayings

The eighth and ninth floors housed the library. It had several million volumes in open stacks, all the major newspapers and periodicals either bound or on computer, and a map section. Expert librarians maneuvered a seemingly limitless budget to keep it well maintained and up-to-date. The reference collections were wonders of the world. — Mark Helprin

To be alive is to be broken. And to be broken is to stand in need of grace. Honesty keeps us in touch with our neediness and the truth that we are saved sinners. There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are. Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel — Kara Tippetts

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. — Zhuangzi

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am. — Kerry Greenwood

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying. — E.B. White

There is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody — Zadie Smith

And I was sorry that I had never felt this particular loneliness before - that I had never felt myself so far outside of someone else's dream. Now I felt the deeper weight of my generational chains - my body confined, by history and policy, to certain zones. Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wished I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

There is a reason history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life. — Jodi Picoult

What is it about humans that make us so prone to prejudice?"
Blue arches one of his unnaturally colored eyebrows and looks up to meet my gaze. "If we didn't form prejudices, we wouldn't be learning from our environment, you dolt. It's an animal instinct. If a porcupine's quill gets stuck in your hand once, you won't be likely to go grabbing it again soon, right? — Rhi Etzweiler

Going north, he thought, but that was wrong. Not going north. Because it's not a train; it's a time machine. Not north; back. Back in time. He thought he heard the moon mutter. — Stephen King

There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded,
intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in
her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she
adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or
interlard her speech with his pet oaths. — Rudyard Kipling