Matariki Festival Quotes & Sayings

Respect existance or expect resistance. — Unknown

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it. — Margrethe Vestager

I fear that some of us understand just enough about the gospel to feel guilty
guilty that we are not measuring up to some undefinable standard
but not enough about the Atonement to feel the peace and strength, the power and mercy it affords us. — Sheri Dew

I will never give up. I am in my 14th year of a 10-day beauty plan. — Phyllis Diller

Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he ever wrong? — J.D. Salinger

I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts. — Sebastian Bach

To be a navigator, you have to be fierce. — Mau Piailug

I don't know why people feel unhappy when the curve of a graph fails to keep going up, but they do. Even when we find something we'd like to reduce, such as highway fatalities, it doesn't always sound as though we had our heart in it. — E.B. White

All his reckless, whimsical, sensual testing of the world throughout the years had been a search for what he knew with her. Passion and peace. Laughter and combat and friendship. God, but he loved her. It was an immensely humbling, enormous, radiant thing. — Julie Anne Long

If you looked round the rooms, you wouldn't think there was anything missing. But it's like one of those Spot the difference cartoons in a puzzle book. The changes are so subtle, yet glaringly obvious once you've seen them. A photo missing here, a cup there. A heart a bit more broken than it was before. — Liz Kessler

Most people leaving church still see the need for some kind of community. We shouldn't think most of them as interested in lone-ranger Christianity. Often, these ex-churchgoers meet together for prayer, accountability, and encouragement. — Kevin DeYoung

I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want to play with my daughter or watch a movie with my husband or go outside on the nicest day of the year. But if writing is going to be your job, you have to treat it like a job. — Chelsea Cain

Once there was a little girl who played her music for a little boy in the wood. She was small and dark, he was tall and fair, and the two of them made a fancy pair as they danced together, dancing to the music the little girl heard in her head. — S. Jae-Jones

One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will be as glum as death, but if you're lucky, this will only make the fun better and the love greater. — William, Saroyan

I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail. — Ryan Sheckler