Ecklund Sports Quotes & Sayings

She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials ... She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall. — John Steinbeck

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. — Gary Ryan Blair

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing. — Kristin Chenoweth

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom. — Jay Weatherill

Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was. — Marianne Williamson

Donald Trump refused to outline a health care plan. And they just kind of moved on, instead of pressing him on it. He gave a ridiculous answer on the national debt. And they moved on without pressing him on it.No other candidate could have gotten away with that. So, I think there's a weird bias here in the media rooting for Donald Trump, because they know he's the easiest Republican to beat. — Marco Rubio

Everything was connected. No person was ever alone, whether in this life or the next. — Johanne Hildebrandt

my cookie? I'm not going to eat it." "Sure. I'll eat you." "What did you just say?" "I said I'd eat yours." I really needed to get some sleep. — Penelope Ward

I'd go with you," the boy said in a far too jovial voice, "but I don't wanna die a gruseome death. — James Dashner

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. — Mahatma Gandhi

Cash misses his wife with a blank pain in his chest, and he misses his sisters and cousins, who have known him since he was a strong, good-looking boy. Everyone back there remembers, or if they are too young, they've been told. The old ones get to hang on the sweet, perfect past. Cash was the best at climbing trees; his sister Letty won the story bees. The woman who married Letty's husband's brother, a beauty named Sugar, was spotted one time drinking a root beer and had her picture in LIFE magazine. They all know. Now she has thin hair and a humped back but she's still Sugar, she gets to walk around Heaven, Oklahoma, with everybody thinking she's pretty and special. which she is. That's the trouble with moving away from family, he realizes. You lose your youth entirely, you have only the small tired baggage that is carried within the body. — Barbara Kingsolver

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house. — Ariel Gore

The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient. — Terence McKenna

When you love what you do, more than likely everything is gonna just come out decent. — Ghostface Killah