Koynumdaki Quotes & Sayings

Give grace to your children today by speaking of sin and mercy. Tell Susan that she can relax into God's loving embrace and stop thinking that she has to perform in order to get her welcoming Father to love her. Tell David that he can have hope that even though he really struggles, he's the very sort of person Jesus loved being around. Dazzle them with his love. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her. Her writing is from a deep, yet innocent, place and her point of view is just a bit off center. I am excited for her, she is standing at the beginning of her journey in this town, with all of it ahead of her. It reminds me of the first time I heard Beth Nielson-Chapman or Nanci Griffith. It's going to be fun to watch. — Kathy Mattea

There's something in human nature, I'm beginning to learn, that makes an adult, when speaking to a younger person, magnify the little things and shrink the big ones. It's like looking - or talking - through a kind of word-telescope that, no matter which end they choose, distorts the truth. Your mistakes are always magnified and your victories shrunken. — Alan Bradley

Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the nature of his memory problem. It wasn't pride that prevented him from asking for help but a deep aversion to causing more trouble than necessary for those of us who lived in the normal world. — Yoko Ogawa

My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas. — Patricia McCormick

Without images we can neither think nor understand anything. — Martin Luther

The winner of the first point is the loser of the last. — Michael Stean

I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me. — Ashley Greene

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are. — Paulo Coelho

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives. — John Hutton

Most of the town couldn't stand Momma, yet would show up because it was the proper thing to do then proceed to judge us on the pageantry of her burial. — Denise Grover Swank

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point. — Mem Fox

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975. — Sally Kirkland

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable. — Carrie Fisher

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal. — Herbie Hancock