Jacey Elthalion Quotes & Sayings

Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property, for ownership. The firm possession of a yard, a porch, a grape arbor. Propertied black people spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests. Like frenzied, desperate birds, they overdecorated everything; fussed and fidgeted over their hard-won homes; canned, jellied, and preserved all summer to fill the cupboards and shelves; they painted, picked, and poked at every corner of their houses. And these houses loomed like hothouse sunflowers among the rows of weeds that were the rented houses. — Toni Morrison

God only allows pain if He's allowing something new to be born. — Ann Voskamp

The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting. — Melanie Chisholm

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge. — Colin Mochrie

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it. — Mark Twain

Every journey towards change begins with awareness. — Sharon Weil

Now we've got the cables. We've got talk radio. We've got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers. — John McCain

The house was the color of baby vomit. — Pixie Lynn Whitfield

My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets. — Blake Shelton