Flowers Growing Through Pavement Quotes & Sayings

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago. — James Caan

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable. — Kirk Cameron

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. — Charlotte Bronte

His was not an easy face to read, and no one could have told that in the past half hour he had suffered the worst knock of his life. Except that he no longer whistled into the wind or talked to his irritable mare, there was nothing to show. — Winston Graham

In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally. — Peter Singer

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory. — Jonathan Kozol

How can you expect me to be perfect ... when I am full of contradictions. — Abraham Ibn Ezra

Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy. — Paulo Coelho

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven. — Jennifer McMahon

There's something about the flower that grows through the rocks, the pavement; through logs and stone or brick walls ... all roses are beautiful; but the rose that emerges unexpectedly through the asphalt has a beauty of soul. The flower that reaches through the brokenness of the wall has a beauty of spirit. You stop to look and not only to look but to cherish! Somewhere along its journey, it decided that it would reach for what was unseen, keep going in the direction of something that wasn't felt, it decided that it would be. That it would become. And it did. And there is something irreplaceable about that. — C. JoyBell C.

With 'Brick,' the style with language and the way it was shot was to create a world obviously elevated from the very first frame above a typical high school. — Rian Johnson

Same thing with the distinction Johnnie made between good kids and bad kids - the distinction didn't compute in my head. It seemed based on a premise that defied my experience, an assumption that children could somehow set the terms of their own development. I thought about Bernadette's five-year-old son, scampering about the broken roads of Altgeld, between a sewage plant and a dump. Where did he sit along the spectrum of goodness? If he ended up in a gang or in jail, would that prove his essence somehow, a wayward gene ... or just the consequences of a malnourished world? And — Barack Obama

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. — Erin Morgenstern

Art is what separates us from the animals. — Iimani David

There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone. — James Frey