Gunnel Fish Quotes & Sayings

Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don't know and have compassion for them at the same time? — Wendell Berry

From nature one can learn the lessons of divine providence, and some of us need to be reminded of this because we can look and not see a world alive with God's presence. — Scot McKnight

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger? — Elizabeth Bowen

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever. — Benjamin Graham

I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama. — Sonia Sanchez

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press. — Charles James