Descubriendo America Quotes & Sayings

We have but one dance to a lifetime of songs. — Laura Miller

I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow. — Tavoris Cloud

Sing praises to the LORD, O you y his saints, and z give thanks to his holy name. [2] 5 a For his anger is but for a moment, and b his favor is for a lifetime. [3] c Weeping may tarry for the night, but d joy comes with the morning. 6. As for me, I said in my e prosperity, "I shall never be f moved." 7 By your favor, O LORD, you made my g mountain stand strong; you h hid your face; I was i dismayed. 8. To you, O LORD, I cry, and j to the Lord I plead for mercy: 9 "What profit is there in my death, [4] if I go down to the pit? [5] Will k the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness? 10 l Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me! O LORD, be my helper! — Anonymous

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it. — George Bernard Shaw

I've been telling you that you should hire Warren."
"Nat, I'm not going to hire Warren."
"Why not?"
I opened my mouth to tell her exactly why not, but as I stared at her too-bright blue eyes and the way her chin was quivering, I chickened out.
"Because ... because I promised Angus when he left that he could have his job back."
"Adrien, he was involved in a murder."
"But he was very good at alphabetizing. — Josh Lanyon

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. — John Stuart Mill

It's because in this vast world of unreliable people, he is the one I know I can rely on. — Jamie Kain

It is a common failing-and one that I have myself suffered from-to fall in love with a hypothesis and to be unwilling to take no for an answer. A love affair with a pet hypothesis can waste years of precious time. There is very often no finally decisive yes, though quite often there can be a decisive no. — Peter Medawar

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. — Francois Truffaut

He was always so happy when he returned that I wondered why he did it, why he tortured himself by watching a bruised world he couldn't heal. — Chris Struyk-Bonn