Maddren Brothers Quotes & Sayings

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is. — William Ames

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge. — Michel De Montaigne

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice. — Thomas Carlyle

Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds. — Karen Kijewski

When I was young, I hid under the porch with a star in my throat.
When I got a little older, my mother opened the cupboard to let the fire out.

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I believe the stories got wet and began to bleed together.
I believe we built the sides of the town too high and the events kept rolling back.
I didn't know that the water was going to keep rising as well,
but if you have any say in the matter, while the boats go down,
I'd like to be on a ladder,
peeking into a loft made narcotic with children,
a dead pool with rolling, living waves. If possible,
I'd like the water to douse the match that's growing out of the bones of my hand. — Catie Rosemurgy

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions. — William McDonough

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence. — John McCain

we clasp hands and look at each other as the sky begins to glow, — Ben H. Winters