Headragged Quotes & Sayings

They were women then
My mama's generation
Husky of voice stout of
Step
With fists as well as
Hands
How they battered down
Doors
And ironed
Starched white
Shirts
How they led
Armies
Headragged generals
Across mined
Fields
Booby-trapped
Ditches
To discover books
Desks
A place for us
How they knew what we
MUST know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Themselves. — Alice Walker

I finally went
where everyone goes
and I realized
I was
never
missing
out. — Meraaqi

I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying. — Jeannie Walker

Don't think you're some kind of snowflake, suit guy. I'm a bitch to everyone. — Magan Vernon

Screw sight. A man didn't have to see to appreciate the picture she presented. Her smell, her heat and the tiny moans escaping her lips were more erotic than any vision. — Nikki Duncan

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity. — George Carlin

It's sloppy theology to think that all suffering is good for us, or that it's a result of sin. All suffering can be used for good, over time, after mourning and healing, by God's graciousness. But sometimes it's just plain loss, not because you needed to grow, not because life or God or anything is teaching you any kind of lesson. The trick is knowing the difference between the two. — Shauna Niequist

Home was a place you lived, love was a thing you didn't fool yourself about, joy was a word that applied to a good Charleston, happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people, a father was an individual who enjoyed his own existence, a husband was a man you lived with and kept going in spirits. — D.H. Lawrence

Prayer sustains us through the storms and rejections. — Euginia Herlihy

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become. — George R R Martin

I love you," he said fiercely. " 'Tis not true that I kept a part of my heart locked away from you. You own all of it, lass. You've always owned it. I didn't give it to you. You took it from the very start. — Maya Banks

Sometimes you can tell what someone is like by the space they leave. — Sara J. Henry

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it. — Margaret Fuller

Our minds are shaped by the books we read.
Our characters, by the people we meet.
Our spirits by the love we give. — Robin Sharma