Heitman House Quotes & Sayings

Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking. — Andrea Dworkin

The morning heat had already soaked through the walls, rising up from the floor like a ghost of summers past. — Erik Tomblin

He felt as if a clear light broke upon his mind, and with it a conviction that, good was, after all, stronger than evil, and that good was possible to men. He seemed to discover that there was a kind of rapture in which he could love forever without faltering and without sin ... That rapture was for those who could feel it; for people who could not, it was non-existent. — Willa Cather

We learned that the body of Christ grows by the Word of Christ, flexing its muscles to serve, stretching out its hands to heal, and dreaming up creative ways to bless one another using the gifts God has given. — Gloria Furman

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors. — Richard Armour

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he. — William Least Heat-Moon

All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body, — Charles James

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake. — Michelle Shocked

Have you ever seen that movie "Despicable me," the first one? Gru, the main character has become a criminal, and in a simple way, the creators of the movie suggest that he became that way because he was neglected by his mother. — Rita Chester

Harmony is about bringing things into balance and knowing how to go from sunrise to sunset. Mother Nature teaches this to us, in so many ways, each and every day. — Jaeda DeWalt

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First. — John Sergeant Wise

She breathed, she walked through her house and knew that nothing was ever going to be the same again. — Susan Mallery

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait. — Francisco Goya

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with. — Chance The Rapper