Melissaesplin Quotes & Sayings

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. — William Glasser

My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel. — Jim Bakker

The years came and went, and gave their blessings, and demanded their sacrifices. — Christie Golden

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance. — Christopher Lasch

I think my favorite album was probably Realization. — Johnny Rivers

God is our example in parenting. — Gary Chapman

So much love to carry and share, but so little heart. — Debasish Mridha

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort. — Leila Josefowicz

When I wish to recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum ....A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it. A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below, - such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. — Henry David Thoreau

Who am I? I'm the one you love to love and love to hate. I make you laugh, cry & cringe. You'll forever remember me or easily forget me. I'm past, present & future in black and white. I'm unique but always compared. You want me to take you away from your life if only for a little while. My pen knows no morals or boundaries. I'm a writer! — Eveli Acosta

Both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever. — Kristin Hannah

Logically, when Maestro Gott some years ago, after an especially cruel critic had compared him to "a zombie who causes acute depression to innocent radio listeners", decided to stop performing in protest, the situation was considered so grave that the Minister of Culture himself went to console the deeply insulted star. — Terje B. Englund

Never practice something you're good at. All it will lead to is one major strength with many downfalls. — Behdad Sami

And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in. — John Betjeman