Melancon Funeral Homes Quotes & Sayings

I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole. — Marilyn Monroe

you can accomplish more than you think you can. most of your limitations are in your mind. — Ernie J Zelinski

I've known who I am as an artist for a long time; 'Idol' has shown me what I'm capable of. I know it's all possible for me now. I can go in any direction I want. I'm forever grateful to them. — Crystal Bowersox

There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves; — Anthony Powell

Mermaids have no tears, and therefore they suffer more. — Hans Christian Andersen

I have friends from rock stars to Rastas; I don't even know what an unexpected friend is. — Rihanna

We went through all the usual exchanges dictated by Hollywood and polite society. She tried to scream and bite the palm of my hand, and I told her to be quiet because I wasn't going to hurt her unless she shouted. She shouted and I hurt her. Pretty standard stuff, really. — Hugh Laurie

A life without poetry is a life without heart, without laughter, without crying - it's a life without feelings. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear — Bruce Springsteen

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being. — Lech Walesa

The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent ... It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best. — Thomas Jefferson

[I] had very high hopes for Israel and it's lived up to and surpassed what I had in mind ... I've had such an eye-opening experience - a really nice glimpse into the culture and lives of Israelis and the Jewish people. — Omar Benson Miller

That stab in the heart she felt when she woke, and the panicky doubt that her life was in her grasp, not fraud or failure, not entirely - that was a brief misery and one she could set aside by putting the light on and reading for a while. She used to ask herself, What more could I wish? But she always distrusted that question, because she knew there were limits to her experience that precluded her knowing what there was to be wished. — Marilynne Robinson

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen — Joyce Meyer