Lediards Quotes & Sayings

It didn't matter that Daniel had already seen her at her absolute, tear-streaked, bedraggled worst. She still had an overwhelming desire to be pretty for him. Which made her resent herself. — Frankie Rose

It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree. — Gerald Stern

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers of one father and one another, with one sky above us and one country around us, and one government for all. — Chief Joseph

If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls. — Robert Benchley

Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale. — Maude Barlow

And I would never, ever mock the power of love. But it can also distort. Slip over into desperation and delusion. — Louise Penny

The Mexicans have a fervent appreciation of poetry and make regular use of it. It occupies a high and ancient seat in the Mexican culture. The Aztecs called it "a scattering of jades," jade being what they valued most, far more than the gold for which they were murdered in great numbers by invading Spaniards. They felt that the more profound aspects of certain concepts, whether emotional, philosophical, political, or artistic, could be expressed only in poetry. — Linda Ronstadt

I get recognized often, but they don't treat me like a god. It would be nice if they did, I think. — Mark Pellegrino

Do you know about Thor's Hammer? (Points to Bicep) Well, that's it right here. — Peter Melman

We are apt to think that God only wants actions of a particular kind, whereas He is most interested in people of a particular sort. — C.S. Lewis

Predictions are nice, if you can make them. But the essence of science lies in explanation, laying bare the fundamental mechanisms of nature. — M. Mitchell Waldrop