Everburning Lamps Quotes & Sayings

We have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them. — Benjamin W. Chidlaw

Storms make trees take deeper roots. — Dolly Parton

In the end, the judge ruled that no woman has "the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception": if a woman isn't willing to die in childbirth, she shouldn't have sex. — Jill Lepore

I want to skip this part. I want to pull on the arm of my slot machine and let the rolls flip over until they show a green tree in the summertime, and me away from that house, walking tall under a blue sky. — Catherynne M Valente

Why speak of the use
of poetry? Poetry
is what uses us. — Hayden Carruth

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of. — Lauryn Hill

The Missouri of his childhood was theoretically the inspiration for Main Street, U.S.A., though only in its halcyon summer vacation months and stripped of any dismal memories: no blizzards, no doctor's office, and no school-house. Almost no one has a dismal experience in Walt Disney's America, as a matter of fact, at least not that Walt noticed. — Eve Zibart

Peace is but the absence of war. War and conflict form the sea through which nation-states swim. Some who have had the fortune to find clear, calm waters believe otherwise. They have forgotten that war is momentum. War is natural. And war makes one strong. — Robert Jackson Bennett

In another land there is glory
In another land there is happiness
In another land we all get along
In another land we will stand with others — April Nichole

However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really. — Ian Hamilton Finlay

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified. — Richard Dawkins

In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough. — Richard K. Morgan

I wasn't being a git. I wasn't even being a twat, or a wanker, or any of your other bleeding Briticisms - — Stephanie Perkins