Denmead Striders Quotes & Sayings

One overall conclusion is plain: under the weight of the combined impact of exploding pluralism, the expansion of the state, and emerging separationism, the early American settlement, so brilliantly described by Tocqueville, is gone, and gone for good. — Os Guinness

Before Columbus, all previous adventurers sailed close to the shore, within sight of land. That was the accepted way to sail. Columbus dared to be different. He refused to do what all others had done. He took a risk: he sailed perpendicular to the shore - straight out to sea. And because he let go of the known and had the bravery to sail out into the unknown, he became one of our greatest heroes. — Robin S. Sharma

You always have choices, my dear. Always. Never forget that. — Cathy Hapka

All right, so you're an orc,' said Trev. 'So they used to eat people. Have you eaten anyone lately?' 'No, Mister Trev.' 'Well, there you are, then. — Terry Pratchett

Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March.
...
I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world ... I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.
I wanted to swallow the bitter seeds of forgetfulness ... Somehow, I dragged myself out of the dark and asked for help.
I spin and weave and knit my words and visions until a life starts to take shape.
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.
I am thawing. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I am a tree in the forest, moving very slowly, only barely touched by the wind. Everyone else just moves past me, and I watch them go, because I cannot be moved from who I am. — Ned Hayes

The best way to get over one man is to go down on another. — Chloe Thurlow

When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was. — John Le Carre

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise? — Mitch Albom

Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation. — Sam Smith

Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there."---The Princess of Intuition — Virginia Burden

Why the snap-crackle-pop didn't you call me? — Kelly Creagh

I'd like to think that we're not just sacks of biological goo careening through a random universe. — Jordan Castillo Price

The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them. — Thomas Aquinas