Gierach Paving Quotes & Sayings

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you. — Brad Pitt

O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you ...
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep. — William Shakespeare

Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in which He reveals Himself. As that love of which God is the object is religious love, so that confidence in Him as a Father, a Moral Governor, a Redeemer, a Sanctifier, in all the modes of His manifestation, by which we believe whatever He says because He says it, and commit ourselves and all our interests cheerfully and entirely into His hands, is religious faith. — Mark Hopkins

When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows. — R.A. Dickey

However, while it may be true that the open-air stalls did help get the economy going again to some degree and feed some of the hungry masses (government rationing being so inadequate that a Tokyo District Court judge who refused to eat anything purchased illegally died of malnutrition), the men who ran them were anything but altruistic. — Robert Whiting

Frederica also thought, for she had been there many times, that if this was a beginning, it was the beginning of an ending, that was the way it went. — A.S. Byatt

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. — William Penn

I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton. — Edith Wharton

Terror is the most dreaded weapon in modern age and the Western media is mercilessly using it against its own people. It can add fear and helplessness in the psyche of the people of Europe and the United States. It means that what the enemies of the United States cannot do, its media is doing that. You can understand as to what will be the performance of the nation in a war, which suffers from fear and helplessness. — Osama Bin Laden

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will. — Swami Vivekananda

When I was little and my mom got mad at me she would always say, "You know you can be replaced".
I have often wondered if I was. — Neil Leckman

Quoi?" she had said, in perfect fucking French. — Christopher Moore