Crepe Myrtle Trees Quotes & Sayings

His pulse races under my palms. "Was there ever ... between us, was there ever something?" I say.
He shakes his head. "Just for me. But you were always Noah's."
"I don't want to be."
He doesn't say anything. — Dan Krokos

Every battalion has its marching songs. — Patrick MacGill

I am tired of writing memorials to black men
whom I was on the brink of knowing
weary like fig trees
weighted like a crepe myrtle
with all the black substance poured into earth
before earth is ready to bear.
I am tired of holy deaths
of the ulcerous illuminations the cerebral accidents
the psychology of the oppressed
where mental health is the ability
to repress
knowledge of the world's cruelty. — Audre Lorde

I don't take vacations. I don't get sick. I don't observe major holidays. I'm a jack hammer. — Jim Harbaugh

I am not going to advocate ... the abandoning of the improved modes of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who goes afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride. — John Burroughs

In all the languages of the world, there is the same proverb: What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over. Well, i say that there isn't an ounce of truth in it. The further off they are, the closer to the heart are all those feelings that we try to repress and forget. If we're in exile, we want to store away every tiny memory of our roots. If we're far from the person we love, everyone we pass in the street reminds us of them. — Paulo Coelho

An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle In The Shape Of A Fish
Here we have thirst
and patience, from the first,
and art, as in a wave held up for us to see
in its essential perpendicularity;
Not brittle but
intense
the spectrum, that
spectacular and humble animal the fish,
whose scales turn aside the sun's sword with their polish. — Marianne Moore

In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force. — George W. Bush

If you want to live, if you want your friends and family to live, I expect you to do more than survive it," Mab said, sweeping out. "I expect you to skin them alive. — Jim Butcher

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change. — Mitch Kapor

How could you ... ? How?"
"Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your lead."
... He is really going through with it.
"No," She managed.
"There is no other way. — Eoin Colfer

Insanity makes the rivers flow. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar. — L. S. Lowry

The American army," said the Prince of Candia, "has the sweet, warm smell of a blond woman."
"You're very kind," said Colonel Jack Hamilton. — Curzio Malaparte

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves. — Christina Baldwin

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot. — Bernard Barton