Forgive Me My Salt Quotes & Sayings

You learn to forgive (the South) for its narrow mind and growing pains because it has a huge heart. You forgive the stifling summers because the spring is lush and pastel sprinkled, because winter is merciful and brief, because corn bread and sweet tea and fried chicken are every bit as vital to a Sunday as getting dressed up for church, and because any southerner worth their salt says please and thank you. It's soft air and summer vines, pine woods and fat homegrown tomatoes. It's pulling the fruit right off a peach tree and letting the juice run down your chin. It's a closeted and profound appreciation for our neighbors in Alabama who bear the brunt of the Bubba jokes. The South gets in your blood and nose and skin bone-deep. I am less a part of the South than it is part of me. It's a romantic notion, being overcome by geography. But we are all a little starry-eyed down here. We're Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara and Rosa Parks all at once. — Amanda Kyle Williams

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it. — Liza Minnelli

The basal ganglia, in other words, stored habits even while the rest of the brain went to sleep. — Charles Duhigg

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark. — Adoniram Judson

Faster ... Faster ... it'll stop all right when the time comes ... — Evelyn Waugh

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire. — Srikumar Rao

So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon ... — Alanis Morissette

The thing about fights, I mean real fights, is that they're nothing like what you see on TV. There's no fancy choreography, no drawn-out, back and forth battle and the sad truth is the good guy doesn't always win. In reality, they're quick, scrappy, and brutal, and the winner is quite simply the guy who doesn't fight fair - at — James P. Sumner

The knife hit deep, suddenly: "Jean Louise, your brother worried about your thoughtlessness until the day he died!" It was raining softly on his grave now, in the hot evening. You never said it, you never even thought it; if you'd thought it you'd have said it. You were like that. Rest well, Jem. She rubbed salt into it: I'm thoughtless, all right. Selfish, self-willed, I eat too much, and I feel like the Book of Common Prayer. Lord forgive me for not doing what I should have done and for doing what I shouldn't have done - oh hell. — Harper Lee

You always have an option to opt between,
'You will always remember' and 'You will never forget'. — Prakash Hegade

Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know. — Frederick Lenz