Gruper Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God. — John Shelby Spong

Marriage is a commitment to do the right thing beyond the emotion of feeling loved — Blake L. Higginbotham

My favorite sport is football. I'm a die hard Steelers fan. Favorite players were Hines Ward and Greg Lloyd. — Anthony Jeselnik

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals combined. In the early twenty-first century, the average human is far more likely to die from bingeing at McDonald's than from drought, Ebola or an al-Qaeda attack. Hence — Yuval Noah Harari

If you would feel comfortable going around to someone's house at the end of a long day saying, "I'm just going to take my bra off," you know you are intimate friends. — Caitlin Moran

In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these pieces and build new castles. — Maria Popova

Consensus doesn't happen by magic ... You have to drive to it. — Christine Quinn

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy. — Pink

We need to remember and remind ourselves where we come from, what we are, our nothingness. — Pope Francis

I couldn't unpeach the peaches. — Annie Dillard

But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all theabstract terms our languages abound in, and so refined by the art of writing, and as it were spiritualized by the use of numbers, because even the vulgar know how to count and reckon, that it is naturally beyond our power to form the vast image of this mistress called Sympathetic Nature. — Giambattista Vico