Howard Hughes Sr Quotes & Sayings

Her face, seen so close, is built of great flats of skin pressed clean of color except for a burnish of yellow that adds to their size mineral weight, the weight of some pure porous stone carted straight from quarries to temples. Words come from this monumental Ruth in the same scale, as massive wheels rolling to the porches of his ears, as mute coins spinning in the light. "You have it pretty good. — John Updike

Our Land is alive, Esperanza ... This whole valley breathes and lives ... He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night. — Andy Andrews

A virtuous failure is better than a successful devil. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing. — John Kline

A Bradford male might realize early on that he'd found the woman of his dreams, but until he was at the point that he was willing to risk a kidnapping charge, he wasn't ready for marriage. — R.L. Mathewson

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people. — Jose Andres

How could she ever know that someone would pick her story up and carry it with him everywhere? — Markus Zusak

People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her soul. — Jodi Picoult

Isn't this exactly why you chose not to contest my claim?"
"Damn straight. I don't have your touch for diplomacy."
Doc barked out a laugh. "If you think Drake's diplomatic, my boy, it's a good thing you're his second. I'd hate to see what you'd consider diplomacy. — Chudney Thomas

Since God lives in the heart, I was not to seek some Being way up in the sky . . . my journey to God was not outward, but inward! The only way to get closer to God was to become ordered enough inside to enable me to experience him within. When our emotions are running loose, and our minds are confused . . . and our imagination is working overtime, there's so much internal noise that we can't hear the still voice of God.

So many times over my years as a mother I had felt tired, overwhelmed, and worn out So often I felt I couldn't get any personal space to think, what with the continual onslaught of "Mummy! Mummy!" coming from the children, or the work that I hadn't finished staring me in the face. I needed quiet time alone. — Holly Pierlot