Delphacidae Quotes & Sayings

As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was she who used to say, 'I myself have seen it,' after telling a particularly hair-raising ghost story - a phrase that I borrowed for one of my titles. — Susanna Moore

Life is not something you ponder to explain; life is something you deeply love and live. — Debasish Mridha

Her reflection had hidden something from her.
This, Valkyrie thought to herself, is probably not a good sign. — Derek Landy

Tragedy is the common lot of man. 'So many people have lost children' I remind myself. pp 178-179
This tragedy is such an inextricable part of my story that it cannot be left out of an honest record. Suffering - no matter how multiplied - is always individual. p 179 — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
[Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan. — Peter Landesman

The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both. — Richard Rohr

The receptionist laughs. Relax. It just means you're a first-time visitor here at Gray Holdings. — Andrew Shaffer

Okra is essentially a squid that grows in the ground instead of swimming in the ocean. — John Sandford

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist. — Kristin Kreuk

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way. — Bayard Rustin