Copper Wine Glasses Quotes & Sayings

Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power. — Richard Salter Storrs

This was the first time ever, since the legendary Pangu created the world, that suona players and professional funeral wailers were dueling for territory. — Liao Yiwu

I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things like how to breathe in and out with your husband (I had my baby when they gave you a shot in the hip and you didn't wake up until the kid was ready to start school), and not enough time given to how to mother after the baby is born. — Erma Bombeck

A trio of teenagers, dressed like Prostitute Barbie, approached, drift-netting the width of the pavement. — David Mitchell

What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally. — Kevin Costner

He showed his daughter how to use cushions to vary his position and relieve the monotony of pressure that corrupts the flesh, but he made her leave the room for all those tasks which would normally fall to the lot of a woman, and which show the greatest love. — Louis De Bernieres

Whoever challenged the racial hierarchy was marked a potential victim of the mob. The endless roster of the dead came to include every sort of insurgent - from the owners of successful Black businesses and workers pressing for higher wages to those who refused to be called "boy" and the defiant women who resisted white men's sexual abuses. Yet public opinion had been captured, and it was taken for granted that lynching was a just response to the barbarous sexual crimes against white womanhood. — Angela Y. Davis

Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly — Frederick Mosteller

Women fall differently, that's all. We die by the stopping of our hearts, they by the insistence of theirs. — Chris Cleave