Firesides Menu Quotes & Sayings

Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells? — William Blake

How's your orange juice, Anna? Does it have a touch of lime?"
The glass paused at my lips as I processed his innuendo, and I took a second to make sure my embarrassment stayed hidden inside. I let the drink swish over my tongue a moment before swallowing and answering.
"Actually it's a little sour," I said, and he laughed.
"Thats a shame. " he picked up a green pear from his plate and bit into it, licking juice that dripped down his thumb. My cheeks warmed as I set down my glass.
"Okay, now you're just being crude," I said.
He grinned with lazy satisfaction. — Wendy Higgins

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship? — Peter Diamandis

To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings. — Wendell Berry

To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular. — Sylvester Stallone

She might be dying. The idea pleased her. — Lauren Oliver

Marie always had a head-ache on hand for any conversation that did not exactly suit her. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. — Constance Baker Motley