Meherin Cleveleys Quotes & Sayings

You can be as great a man as you please while you're alive. Makes not a straw of difference once you go back to the mud. And — Joe Abercrombie

If you keep wanting to get back in the nest, you're missing the amazing experience of coming out to play at life for a while. — Jay Woodman

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. — Hans Christian Andersen

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book. — Isaac Newton

It was the first morning of the first day of the new century. Snow blanketed the ground. Anything was possible. — Jacqueline Kelly

Now it was winter. He hated the damp of Paris. "Behold me at length on the vaunted scene of Europe!" Jefferson wrote in 1785.48 "I find the general fate of humanity here most deplorable. The truth of Voltaire's observation offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil." As much as Jefferson loved France, residence abroad gave him a greater appreciation for his own nation. "My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy," Jefferson wrote Monroe.49 "I confess I had no idea of it myself. — Jon Meacham

I have forgotten my mask and my face was in it. Man — Anais Nin

Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that provide the master keys to heaven. When we identify and work to transform our self-centered qualities and crooked characteristics, the key turns and the gates unlock. Blessings and good fortune are now free to rain down upon us. — Yehuda Berg

He was quiet in the way people are when they believe the world would get along just fine without them. — Banana Yoshimoto

In the ritual of baptism, our ancestors acted out the bizarre truth of the Christian identity: We are people who stand totally exposed before evil and death and declare them powerless against love. There — Rachel Held Evans