Greengage Tree Quotes & Sayings

I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes,
or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments
of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve
my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before
this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference
descends. — Virginia Woolf

Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla. — Eden Robinson

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life. — Thomas Merton

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. — Friedrich Schiller

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there. — Peter Thomas Bauer

I am an animal rights campaigner myself, and I donate money and time to those charities, but I think sometimes the problem with animal rights campaigners, including myself, is that we don't think about people's feelings, too. — Kerry Condon

I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by our family. There was no safe haven for us. But somehow we always managed to be happy. — Luis Negron

To demand the art forms of yesterday in either word systems or art is a bourgeois failure. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Stop thinking of failing. — Benjamin Carson

Not knowing should not be an excuse when the matter of knowing becomes a turning point in one's life — Mwangala Kamwi Joshua

Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury - sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal - drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, but also violence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the giving and receiving of blows from which we never recover. The Furies pursue us; Shiva dances his furious dance to create and also to destroy. But never mind about gods! Sara ranting at him represented the human spirit in its purest, least socialized form. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise - the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untramelled lord of creation. — Salman Rushdie

Being disconnected from the local church, for whatever reason, is a dangerous way to live. Not only do these " lone rangers" miss out on the blessings of functioning within the context of the body of Christ, but like lone sheep away from the safety of the flock and the watchful care of the shepherd, they are vulnerable to predators of every sort. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

MIDLIFE is that pivotal moment when you can FINALLY say that you basically have all your shit together and then your body starts falling apart! — Tanya Masse

speed is a skill; therefore, the skill of sprinting can be taught if proper progression and principles of motor learning are applied. — Vern Gambetta

Oh, but God had a plan. A marvelous plan. He allowed Hannah to be childless so that she would petition God for a child instead of assuming it would be the normal result of marital relations. He also allowed Hannah to be deeply desirous of a child so she would dedicate him entirely to the Lord. He sovereignly planned for His word — Beth Moore

The life of men is painful. — Euripides