Cradled In Grace Quotes & Sayings

The light is the color of brandy seeping. It has a taste. Your skin tastes it, like you're all over tongues. The taste is sugar-cane, slowly rotting, turning into the great god rum. It's always that magic hour those film-boys love to shoot down here. Always gold. — Catherynne M Valente

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason. — John Ortberg

I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode! — Patrick Dempsey

Grace studied her hands as they moved across the meat. They looked much like any others the same age - veined, lined, the backs stained with tea-coloured spots. But they'd felt their way through the past seventy years in unique ways. Much of their work had been to the benefit of others, some not. She'd known them as still, listening hands, but also as hands that moved with urgency and madness. For a while they'd been careful nurse's hands. Then hands that cradled three babies and clapped, tickled and taught in turn. She'd bruised, burnt and cut them; some scars suggested badly. They'd dismissed, beckoned, pleaded over the years, and not always successfully. Their goodbyes were too many to recall. — Sally Piper

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. — E.W. Howe

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them. — Bob Dylan

Not all the harps above Can make a heavenly place, If God His residence remove, Or but conceal His face. All thou needest to make thee blessed, supremely blessed, is to be with Christ. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As our products have improved, and you add value at the high end, customers move to the high end. — Amy Hood

For our law has in it a turn of humour or touch of fancy which Nero and Herod never happened to think of; that of actually punishing homeless people for not sleeping at home. — G.K. Chesterton

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you. — Sherry Argov

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work. — Katherine Heigl

No!" Sally said. "I didn't want you here in the first place. Why are you here? What do you want from me? Do you want to take my stuff?" She snatched the tiara from her head and cradled it against her chest. "Is that it? You think you can come here and help yourself to my pre- cious jewels? Get out of here! I can't stand you, Grace. 1 never could. Always whining, whining, whining. Why are you here? What do you want from me? You always — Jane Green

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. — Richard Bach