Lumsden Bridge Quotes & Sayings

It is above all the valorizing of the present that requires emphasizing. The simple fact of existing, of living in time, can comprise a religious dimension. This dimension is not always obvious, since sacrality is in a sense camouflaged in the immediate, in the "natural" and the everyday. The joy of life discovered by the Greeks is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing - even fugitively - in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world. Like so many others before and after them, the Greeks learned that the surest way to escape from time is to exploit the wealth, at first sight impossible to suspect, of the lived instant. — Mircea Eliade

History had singled out the United States to play a unique role as the chief instrument for securing the advance of freedom, which found its highest expression in democratic capitalism. — Andrew J. Bacevich

Our challenge is not getting the Lord to speak to us; our challenge is
understanding what He has to say. — Sheri L. Dew

And they didn't even read; depressed populations don't have the time or energy to spare. The affluent populations, which should have been their help, didnt, as far as could be discovered, read either - they merely bought books and devoured them, but not in order to learn: in order to learn new attitudes. — James Baldwin

I've said it before, and by gosh, I'll say it again - don't be afraid to toot your own horn. — Emlyn Chand

Thank you," Livvie muttered from the passenger seat.
"For what?" Caleb was still irritated. "For saving my life. Even if you're just going to put it in danger again," she whispered. — C.J. Roberts

The highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children. — Eda LeShan

Mrs. Ramsey, who had been sitting loosely, folded her son in her arm, braced herself, and, half turning, seemed to raise herself with an effort, and at once to pour erect into the air a rain of energy, a column of spray, looking at the same time animated and alive as if all her energies were being fused into force, burning and illuminating (quietly though she sat, taking up her stocking again), and into this delicious fecundity, this fountain and spray of life, the fatal sterility of the male plunged itself, like a beak of brass, barren and bare. — Virginia Woolf

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up. — Jonathan Tropper

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school. — James Snyder