Ehlert Lois Quotes & Sayings

For so many years, Lumikki had needed to find hiding places because she was afraid. Finding secret nooks and safe havens was a lifeline. These days, it wasn't so much about fear as a desire to find some room just for her in a place that was shared by everyone. — Salla Simukka

A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows. — Lois Ehlert

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. — Ray Bradbury

Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone. — Debbie Ford

I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised. — Patrick Kane

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching. — Paul Tsongas

A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them. — Lois Ehlert

This sensible, sensible girl. A girl who knew how to protect herself. Never a daredevil, never stunting without a safety mat, without spotters. A girl for whom instability was the ultimate enemy. Who'd never known divorce or slamming doors or slamming fists. A girl whose home was a peaceful sanctum, even the basement padded. A life that had to be made safe because of the risks she put her body through. She was the most dangerous thing in her own life. Her body, the only dangerous thing. — Megan Abbott

A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience. — Eddie Cantor

She cried for fully five minutes. She cried without trying to suppress any of the noisier manifestations of grief and confusion, with all the convulsive throat sounds that a hysterical child makes when the breath is trying to get up through a partly closed epiglottis. And yet, when finally she stopped, she merely stopped, without the painful, knifelike intakes of breath that usually follow a violent outburst-inburst. — J.D. Salinger

A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic. — Bill Watterson

I was grown up long before the grown ups were the grown ups. — Aporva Kala

They have yielded to the only enemy that matters - the enemy within. — E. M. Forster

The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust, and they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself. — Alexander Hamilton

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight. — Lois Ehlert

Some souls are just ...There.
They are a constant in your world. You know, no matter what, they will remain. Intrinsically woven into the fabric of your life, inexplicably connected, you are drawn to their intoxicating essence and it is there you will find your reflection staring back at you.
Such is love between soul mates... — Virginia Alison

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him. — Denis Diderot