Depaola Books Quotes & Sayings

Let the whole world hear that we reject America. No, no to the occupier. — Muqtada Al Sadr

The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built railway before being displayed and disposed of at ground level. — Phil Baker

This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read
that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much when He afflicts as when He prospers us; that there is no real happiness but in doing and suffering His will; and that this life is but a scene of probation through which we pass to the real life above. — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me. — Bryan Stevenson

I wondered if that wasn't the answer to the mystery, countrywide. It wasn't that eating was so great-it wasn't-but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything else that was decidedly less than okay. — Lionel Shriver

To dream on occasion is not dreaming,
To love on occasion is not love. — Dejan Stojanovic

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. — Tomie DePaola

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools? — B.F. Skinner

We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, and I believe that to love ourselves means to extend to those various selves that we have been along the way the same degree of compassion and concern that we would extend to anyone else. — Frederick Buechner

One person standing on the Rock can throw a lifeline to others drowning in the sea. He — Francine Rivers

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated. — Mr. T

And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet. — Conor Oberst

If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting. — Carolyn Chute