Kirklands Christmas Quotes & Sayings

Myth and nature are the two great garments of the world, with nature being the living green garment that covers the planet and myth being the multidimensional, many-colored fabric that continually weaves human culture. — Michael Meade

My midwife partners and I at the The Farm learned by observation and experience that the presence of even one person who is not exquisitely attuned to the mother's feelings can stop some women's labors. All women are sensitive. Some women are extraordinarily so. We learned this truth by observing many labors stop or slow down when someone entered the birth room who was not intimate with the laboring mother's feelings. If that person then left the room, labor usually returned to its former pace or intensity. — Ina May Gaskin

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road. — Neil LaBute

The Master said, "The gentleman does not serve as a vessel."
(Analects 2.12) — Confucius

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard. — Leonardo Da Vinci

If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it. — Johnny Vegas

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again. — Jason Aldean

As in nature. and in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones, their lustre. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles, and in what seems hard dealing God has no end in view but to perfect our graces. He sends tribulations, but tells us their purpose, that "tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope." — Thomas Guthrie

You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership. — Anna Quindlen

Nothing is sillier than the creative writing teacher's dictum
"Write about what you know." But whether you're writing
about people or dragons, your personal observation of how
things happen in the world - how character reveals itself - can
turn a dead scene into a vital one. Preliminary good advice
might be: Write as if you were a movie camera. Get exactly
what is there. All human beings see with astonishing accuracy,
not that they can necessarily write it down. — John Gardner

If only he'd taken one look at her and seen that they were soul mates, swept her off her feet and taken her to Las Vegas to be married in the same little chapel where Britney Spears had been. She laughed to herself. It would probably have lasted just as long, once her mother found out. — Jettie Necole

Did you really ever think of me when you were kidnapped? Because I look at all the things you went through, and my first instinct is to shield you from my problems - but sometimes you act like nothing happened to you at all. — Lia Habel

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it. — Lady Hester Stanhope