Martlets Charity Quotes & Sayings

We want peace, but not at any price. — Ehud Barak

Healing the Earth, through Healing Birth. — Jeannine Parvati Baker

... and now and then we could look up and give each other a thought,
because I think he could have beautiful thoughts,
and we could just let each other be less lonely in our loneliness. — Charlotte Eriksson

As for the young man carrying the groceries, he was a thin, fair-skinned young man, and I would have said that he had been born in the house. He had the vacant, dog-like expressions that house-born slaves, as I remembered, liked to put on when they were in public with their masters and performing some simple task. This fellow was pretending that the Waitrose groceries were a great burden, but this was just an act, to draw attention to himself and the lady he served. He, too, had mistaken me for an Arab, and when we crossed he had dropped the burdened-down expression and given me a look of wistful inquisitiveness, like a puppy that wanted to play but had just been made to understand that it wasn't playtime. — V.S. Naipaul

The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep. — Guy Finley

My eyes fell on the gray linoleum floor and I wondered how many other women had sat on this toilet and stared at this floor. Each of them the center of their own world, all of them yearning for someone to put their love into so they could see their love, see that they had it. — Miranda July

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike. — Eric Bentley

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature. — Grace Paley

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. — William Osler

All we have to do is ask and He will give us the wisdom that we need to get through the storm. — David Jeremiah