Martana Nelson Quotes & Sayings

It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion. — John Ruskin

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me. — Alfred De Musset

Can we only speak when we are fully living what we are saying? If all our words had to cover all our actions, we would be doomed to permanent silence! Sometimes we are called to proclaim God's love even when we are not yet fully able to live it. Does that mean we are hypocrites? Only when our own words no longer call us to conversion. Nobody completely lives up to his or her own ideals and visions. But by proclaiming our ideals and visions with great conviction and great humility, we may gradually grow into the truth we speak. As long as we know that our lives always will speak louder than our words, we can trust that our words will remain humble. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Before you get married you should meet your fiance's parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer. — Phyllis Diller

Talent is really important in politics, but experience is also really important. — Nicola Sturgeon

Can I say I'm a reformed bad boy without sounding like a tool? — R.S. Grey

As a rule of thumb, if a verb or phrase is about wishes, emotions, doubt, denial, recommendations, knowledge and understanding, then there's a strong possibility the Subjunctive will follow. — Linda Plummer

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products. — Beth Ditto

Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome. — Isabella Bird

Faith and hope are the antidote. Stay actively involved in manifesting your dreams and the world created will be one we all want to live in. — Jewel

You could've just told them to go away. I'd seen that cold, don't-bother-me-or-I'll-kill-you glare. No one in their right mind would continue pestering the Ice prince once that chilling gaze was turned on them. — Julie Kagawa

I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue. — Mickey Gilley

The shadow spoke of a culture forming that overvalued individuality, of children that wanted to get away from their families, of — Hugh Howey

How do I write the stories I do? Honestly I just make sh** up!"
-Erin Rambeau — Erin Rambeau

The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times. — Pope John Paul II