Faulted Mountains Quotes & Sayings

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much. — Lisa Wingate

I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information. — Patrick Soon-Shiong

Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers. — Arthur Lynch

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul. — Margaret Weis

I suppose "cartographer" is as good a description as any, but the Argosi do not draw maps of places, but rather of people... cultures.' She tapped the deck in my hand. 'You understand the meaning of the suits? ... look more closely at the individual cards and you'll see that the particular design on each card reflects part of the fundamental power structure of that society.'
pg 79 — Sebastien De Castell

Mario the Magnificent is Orange! His eyes sparkle with eagerness as he winks at me. — Bill Blais

When your're both finished trying to frighten each other away with the sordidness of your pasts, can you help me, please? — Melina Marchetta

You're a vision." I narrowed my eyes at him. "Like the kind you see after a healthy dose of peyote?" "No, you know, it sort of looks like something some of the more promiscuous girls might have worn in my day," Gabriel said. "On what planet is that a compliment?" I demanded as Dick laughed. — Molly Harper

Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it. — Dave Barry

In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it. — Yukio Mishima

The past one year saw people turning Twitter into a battlefield of clashing opinions by creating hashtags against the enemy and making them trend. — Anonymous

Three witches and a werewolf. If this wasn't so dire, it'd make one hell of a good joke. — Ellis Leigh

part of what makes me who I am. I knew that the moment I met you, and you did, too. — Callie Hart

Thank you, I said. I have lived in my own book. One I never planned to write, recording time backwards and forwards. — Patti Smith