Quotes & Sayings About Daughters Growing Up Too Fast

I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong. — Derrick Jensen

On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown. — Shahrnush Parsipur

I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old. — Joseph J. Lhota

Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour. — Walter J. Phillips

Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens. — Ken Ham

It is no small advantage to the holy life to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their hearts with Him over night, that they may find them with Him in the morning. Before earthly things break in upon us, and we receive impressions from abroad, it is good to season the heart with thoughts of God, and to consecrate the early and virgin operations of the mind before they are prostituted to baser objects. When the world gets the start of religion in the morning, it can hardly overtake it all the day. — Thomas Case

Death's power is limited
It cannot eradicate memories
Or slay love
It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith
Or permanently hobble the smallest hope in God
It cannot permeate the soul
And it cannot cripple the spirit
It merely separates us for a while
That is the only power death can claim
No more — Donna VanLiere

He watched her with a hopeful, piercing scrutiny that made her tingle, she felt so ... seen. — Laini Taylor

Do not think that you will be able to succeed in your affairs by your own efforts, but only by the assistance of God; and on setting out, consign yourself to His care, believing that He will do that which will be best for you. — Francis De Sales

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. — Neville Cardus

We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'. — Amaury Nolasco

Emigration tears people apart. They learn about high points and personal disasters in letters and phone calls. Closer contact is impossible. As if they have landed on another planet, breathing is difficult in the spacesuits they don't dare to take off for fear there won't be enough air in the new atmosphere. Their chests rise and fall with difficulty. Their lungs hurt. The voices of the other settlers croak through the microphones in their helmets. — Julya Rabinowich

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it. — Robert Bresson