Commiseration Letter Quotes & Sayings

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish — Charles Reznikoff

Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the absence of the African voice. Being part of that dialogue meant not only sitting at the table but effectively telling the African story from an African perspective - in full earshot of the world. — Chinua Achebe

You can feed a skeptic the party line but you can't make him swallow it. — Marty Rubin

When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow. — Mike Norton

[The moon] ... is an example of practiced stability ... it wanes when it must, and reliably returns to full strength ... it is a humble model of reasonable potential that I can emulate, and follow. — Terry Crawford Palardy

Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality. — Russell M. Nelson

I tried to get through to my brother, Mike, on the Moon, but the phone company wouldn't let me place the call until I had signed a contract and posted a $25,000 bond. — Joe Haldeman

I don't like to think about stuff that's boring. — Eric Bachmann