Liptrap Family Quotes & Sayings

What you believe, you can achieve. — Mary Kay Ash

When we settle back into our selves, everything feels different, like if I turned on the light we'd be bears. — Jandy Nelson

I make it a point to understand nothing of what I'm told. — Sienna McQuillen

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional. — Clay Shirky

She pulled a chair to the tiny table "I'm starving."
"So am I," he answered, but when she glanced up he was looking at her and not the food. — Jodi Thomas

Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse. — Philip Yancey

Eaters of Wonder Bread
Must be underbred.
So little to eat.
Where's the wheat? — Roy Blount Jr.

I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don't wisdom teach this? — Samuel Noah Kramer

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton. — Ayelet Waldman

A smile within your heart,
lightens up the world around" rd — Rosemary Fonseca

We don't come to the table to fight or to defend. We don't come to prove or to conquer, to draw lines in the sand or to stir up trouble. We come to the table because our hunger brings us there. We come with a need, with fragility, with an admission of our humanity. The table is the great equalizer, the level playing field many of us have been looking everywhere for. The table is the place where the doing stops, the trying stops, the masks are removed, and we allow ourselves to be nourished, like children. We allow someone else to meet our need. In a world that prides people on not having needs, on going longer and faster, on going without, on powering through, the table is a place of safety and rest and humanity, where we are allowed to be as fragile as we feel. — Shauna Niequist

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute. — H.L. Mencken