Lampone Lilies Quotes & Sayings

Inside, the midwife was trying to get Socorro to open her mouth wide and let the pain come out. "Open your mouth," said Angelina, massaging Socorro's neck and shoulders, "and let out what you feel. Don't keep it in, querida, let it out."
Socorro cried softly at first, but little by little she loosened up and she began to let out long, ear-piercing screams.
"Good," said the midwife, "now breathe deeply, deeply, and then cry out again, letting all the pain go out of your body. — Victor Villasenor

In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom. — Jennifer McMahon

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie. — Criss Jami

The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man — David Crockett

Guilt is not of God. We receive only a divine conviction with our shame swallowed up in Christ. Walk in truth and find freedom in His Grace! — Alisa Hope Wagner

There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. — Martin Luther King Jr.

One of the things that I noticed with my own eyes was Nelson Mandela ability to engage with kings and queens and heads of state on the one hand, and his ability to engage with ordinary people, equally comfortably. — Kumi Naidoo

There's no rest when you're on planetary duty. — Paul Watson

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness. — Eliza Bisbee Duffey

The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution. — Timothy Leary

Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote. — Tony Evans

I wonder if the children of movie stars get this weird sense of disconnect I have now. The person on-screen looks like the woman who makes lemonade in our kitchen, but the words coming out of her mouth are alien. — Huntley Fitzpatrick