Folksingers Wordbook Quotes & Sayings

I don't know, I think that if I had any regrets, that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I've gone through that I don't wish on no one else has brought a beautiful community to me. — Lemon Andersen

If it was the Border Patrol's job to apprehend lawbreakers, it was equally their duty to save the lost and the dying. — Luis Alberto Urrea

Dwelling

As though touching her
might make him known to himself,

as though his hand moving
over her body might find who
he is, as though he lay inside her, a country

his hand's traveling uncovered,
as though such a country arose
continually up out of her
to meet his hand's setting forth and setting forth.

And the places on her body have no names.
And she is what's immense about the night.
And their clothes on the floor are arranged
for forgetfulness. — Li-Young Lee

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. — Thomas S. Monson

I can't solve his problems, and it's not my fault that he thinks I should. — Lundy Bancroft

I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible. — Anders Petersen

Gemma told me that women like being courted, so please read the following reasons that you should marry me. (I only included five. I didn't want to overwhelm you.) And yes, I realize this isn't a traditional courtship. It'll work anyway; I'm irresistible. — Elizabeth Hunter

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs. A good short story asks a question that can't be answered in simple terms. And even if we come up with some understanding, years later, while glancing out of a window, the story still has the potential to return, to alter right there in our mind and change everything. — Walter Mosley

Recall that in April 2008 candidate Obama - unaware that a blogger was recording his remarks at a private fundraiser for moneyed Bay Area radicals - dismissed religion as a consolation for the "bitter" in Middle America. Contained within this one remark was the seed of secularist bigotry toward the religious that would come to full and odorous flower in his first term. — Phyllis Schlafly

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion. — Miyavi

I have full requisition right from the quartermasters too, Kaladin said, — Brandon Sanderson

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won't admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here. — Michael Thomas Ford