Makers And Son Quotes & Sayings

Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves. All we know is he's called the Stig. — Jeremy Clarkson

If we are not in control of ourselves but instead let our impatience or anger interfere, then our work is no longer of any value. — Thich Nhat Hanh

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why. — Flora Lewis

When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances. — Stephen Covey

The feminist story, she reminded me, is a counternarrative, a narrative of disobedience, a chronicle of battle, nto of surrender. Women who do not fit the mold are too often maneuvered, manipulated, and mangled into some culturally safe archetype. The makers of history transformed perpetua intoa cold, unfeeling mother - a villan of sorts. But who is to say that becoming a mother didn't also push Perpetua to become a martyr, didn't cause her to passionatley uphold her religious ideals because she wanted to offer her son the greatest gift she could - an ideal? Maybe, in the end, Perpetua's maternal instincts were precisely what gave her the strength to confront the burliest Roman gladiator and the to lie down with dignity? — Stephanie Staal

In secret pleasure - secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away — Emily Bronte

For me an adventure is something that I can take an active part in but that I don't have total control over. — Peter Croft

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady. — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don't ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better. — Homer Hickam

What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil? — Christian Harrison