Franklin The Baby Quotes & Sayings

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. — Ambrose Bierce

With patient persistence, you will conquer any situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly. — Franklin Knight Lane

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter. — Ariana Franklin

I've never really been satisfied with a book. I always want it to be better. — Ruth Rendell

It's not easy to play a match every two days. — Juan Ramon Lopez Caro

Down Hearted Blues, by Bessie Smith. This is the song Ingersoll is singing to the baby — Tom Franklin

My baby. My baby. She loved to call him Willy, but others could also call him Willy. Only she could say, My baby. But as much as he was her baby then, he was more so now, after the vigil on her knees, after the curses and after the prayers, after the weeping and after the begging, after going into the deepest blackest place. — Tom Franklin

We have two families in life. The one we're born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give its blood for us. — Mark Frost

If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning ... and ask yourself whether this situation is truly God given. Because where God wants you to be, God holds you safe and gives you peace, even when there is pain. To live a disciplined life is to live in such a way that you want only to be where God is with you. The more deeply you live your spiritual life, the easier it will be to discern the difference between living with God and living without God, and the easier it will be to move away from the places where God is no longer with you. — Henri Nouwen

In the 1770s, when he was in Paris, Benjamin Franklin witnessed the flight of one of the first hot-air balloons. As the balloon soared into the air, someone asked Franklin: "What good is it?" Franklin responded: "What good is a new-born baby? — Benjamin Franklin

Upon the occasion of history's first manned flight - in the 1780's aboard the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloons - someone asked Franklin what use he saw in such frivolity. "What use," he replied, "is a newborn baby? — Mary Roach

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. — Erica Jong