Kings Park State Hospital Quotes & Sayings

The ladders of glory we are told to climb to behold the "naked God" are now marked, "Danger: No Entry." Just as we would not have expected to find God in a feeding trough of a barn in an obscure village, much less hanging, bloody, on a Roman cross, we do not expect to find him delivering his gifts in such humble places and in such humble ways as human speech, a bath, and a meal. Think cross, not glory. — Michael S. Horton

The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it. — Andrew Bird

Always do what you are afraid to do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All which isn't singing is mere talking ... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of(as mountains feel and lovers)singing is silence — E. E. Cummings

Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today. — Angela Merkel

David could hear the voices that said, then why hadn't he run for a political seat to work for change? His answer to them would be that he was too much in love with his woman and his children, and the people around him to leave his land to take up a political office; — Toni Mariani

Amanda had way too much time to think being at the hospital without any friends. She didn't want to dwell on her thoughts for too long lest the wrong ones might emerge. She was hoping to forget what happened to her. — Jason Medina

Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money. — Adolf Hitler

There's one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just don't have anywhere else to go. — Jason Medina

What are your interests?"
"Your son in my room," I said.
"Excuse me?"
"The sun and the moon," I said. "Astronomy. — David Levithan

I live to harass white folks. — Derrick Bell

When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation. — Mary Lambert

By dinnertime, Amanda had managed to pick off all of her red nail polish purely out of habit. She was disappointed and silently cursed at herself when she remembered not having anymore to put on. She stared at her fingernails for about twenty minutes for lack of something better to do. — Jason Medina

I suppose I do have a suitor, but I'm not really used to him yet. He's terribly charming and he plies me with delicious meals, but I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I wish I were a bird. I'd fly all the way up to the clouds and look down on this place, and then I'd go far away and never come back. — Jason Medina

For the place God calls us into isn't doubt free - how can any place where we walk by faith and not by sight be that? No, the holy wild is where we have driving and haunting doubts, God-hungry doubts that pull us to our knees, force us to the Word, make us wrestle all night and not let go until He blesses us. The holy wild throngs with true skeptics. — Mark Buchanan

Writing let me escape ... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from. — Jennifer Weiner

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs. — Beau Bridges