Marietje Vanderspikken Quotes & Sayings

The girl you just called a slut because she's 15 and she has a child, was raped at the age of 13.
The man you just called ugly, has serious scares on his face from going to war to fight and save our country, the country we live in today.
The lady you just laughed at cause she's bald, had two different types of cancer — Leon

I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus. — P.C. Cast

I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life. — Dick Van Dyke

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself. — Mahatma Gandhi

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. — Kurt Vonnegut

People like Busta Rhymes would say, 'Clinton Sparks doesn't do mix tapes; he does albums. He just throws albums out on the street.' — Clinton Sparks

NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not an underpaid civil servant; he's the ultimate extreme athlete. Red Bull knows how to make space hip. — Mary Roach

My idea of that[idea of career] is constantly changing. I mostly just throw it out to the universe and I can't really do much after that. I've never taken the steps to be "successful": I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house. I've talked to people about it but I've never followed through because it gives me the creeps. — J. Tillman

When you let another steal your joy you give them power over you. Don't let anyone steal your smile — Tammy Johnson

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. — A.S. Byatt

Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is. — Neale Donald Walsch

Every soul ... comes into the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its' previous life. Its' place in this world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor, is determined by its' previous merits or demerits. Its' work in this world determines its' place in the world which is to follow this. — Origen

Later, when I was a new mother, I recognized her somewhat awestruck fascination with me. When you are fully immersed in the daily care and quirks and habits of a small, dependent child, an older kid who is articulate, civilized, and capable of moving around in the world without getting itself killed can seem as supernatural as a wizard. — Kate Moses

My husband has a gift for reaching out to people in need. I always look over and see him connecting to someone who needs to talk or needs some support. — Jodi Benson

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby. — Justin Bieber