Flintcomb Ash Quotes & Sayings

The old frame house down near the waterfront had never held so many people since the day it was put up. It must have been a pleasant place fifty years before: trees overhanging the limpid water, cows grazing in the meadows on both sides of the river, little frame houses like this one dotting the banks here and there.
It wasn't a pleasant place any more: garbage scows, coal yards, the river a greasy gray soup. Dead-end blocks of decrepit tenements on one side of it, lumberyards and ice-plants and tall stacks on the other.
The house was set far back from the street, hemmed in by the blank walls that rose around it.
("I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes") — Cornell Woolrich

After having your first child, it's a massive shock to the system. I work in an industry where people judge you and the way you look, and you always want to put your best foot forward when you can. — Louise Nurding

We tend to attract the things we fear. — Peace Pilgrim

I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during the punk era, when you just had a go at whatever came along. — Peter Capaldi

It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics. — Frederick Lenz

We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles. — Justin Cronin

Purity, we see in the object-lesson, is NOT the one thing needful; and it is better that a life should contract many a dirt-mark, than forfeit usefulness in its efforts to remain unspotted. — William James

An imitator is always a poor example. — Marion Davies

But some vows are made for good reason, and some are made for pride. — Christina Dodd

Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts. — George S. Patton

We play very dangerous games with life and no one knows our rules. — Parke Godwin

You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. — Hermann Hesse

The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We must take ourselves out of violating situations for the sake of our own wholeness. — Anne Katherine

You seem a little challenged in the entitlement department. I mean, compared to the others. — Jonathan Franzen

Save a life, and your path will always have light. — James Patterson