Continentale Helling Quotes & Sayings

I got a shotgun and a backhoe and no one looks under a septic tank for a dead body. (Bubba) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is good or bad. The point of no return was passed long ago, before anyone knew it was happening. — Theodosius Dobzhansky

Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the — Lisa Wingate

Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore. — Stephen Spender

I'm very optimistic about my home state of Arizona. — John McCain

Pursuing a family history beyond a simple catalogue of names is always evidence of separation, of severing ties at least to the extent of holding one's relations at arm's length. The family member who want to make a private gift of a family tree to a close circle of relatives soon becomes the historian who estranges her antecedents by locating them "in history". I found that family history, which humanizes those who might otherwise be mere faces in a crowd, also defamiliarized those closest to me, giving their lives a larger pattern than they had when they were lived. They became both more and less themselves. I consoled myself by thinking that this is what history does to us too. As we grow older we see not how unique our lives have been, but how representative we were and are; that we are part of the figure in the carpet woven by events, by chance and accident, and by the play of forces more powerful than us. — Alison Light

Blemishes on the beauty of a person one loves are like grace notes adding something to a piece of music. — Winston Graham

What does a decent chap talk about with the greatest possible pleasure?
Answer: about himself. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being. — Steven Jackson

Until we care more about what God thinks than what other people think we are never truly free — Christine Caine

I wondered if anybody had ever called her "ma'am," or "Miss Mayella" in her life; probably not, as she took offense to routine courtesy. What on earth was her life like? I soon found out. — Harper Lee