Mcelhaney Press Quotes & Sayings

One of the favorite speakers was a man in red who warned of sickle-cell anemia, 'a deadly organism lurking in all nigger blood.'

'If so much as one drop of nigger blood gets in your baby's cereal,' he said, 'the baby will surely die in one year.' He did not explain how he thought a negro would come to bleed in anyone's cereal. — Charles Portis

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs. — Liz Curtis Higgs

Listen ..Think ..Can you hear the words in their silence ?'-Fida Qutob — Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob

I know most people have given up on a happy ending. But I can't. I have to hope. — Jenelle Schmidt

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words. — Cynthia Ozick

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you? — Charles Spurgeon

Strengthen the feebler, lighten the darker, love all. — C.S. Lewis

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come. — Colum McCann

I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another, and that the infinite subtlety of the shading from one extreme to the other was one of the most beautiful of nature's phenomena. — Jan Morris