Downorup Quotes & Sayings

Give until tears stream down your eyes. — Kong Hee

The number one rule of our training is empathy before education. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album. — Donna Douglas

Math ... music .. starry nights ... These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it's not. It's an essentially human experience. — Rebecca Goldstein

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head. — Pat Metheny

Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I, myself, even in this day and at my age, have great need of recalling the miraculous lives of the Saints and the great miracles that have come to pass on earth. Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for. — Betty Smith

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How do you know that life is such a gift, and that dying would waste it when you've never felt how it is to die? — Jessamine Verzosa

The prevention of emotional and behavioral disorders encompasses intervening in the early years — James M. Kauffman

I had to get away from him. Sometimes we reject the people who tell the truth and it is not because they are wrong. It is because we can't — Rachel Joyce

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

When you see your male counterparts living a completely different lifestyle, I think it would be quite depressing! So no, it's not for me. — Victoria Pendleton

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material. — Joyce Maynard

Books are alive and, just like people, sometimes are welcome and sometimes shown the door and asked to come back later. — Christopher Herz

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery. — Jay McInerney