Merdivenin Quotes & Sayings

The truth between two people always cuts two ways. — Diana Wynne Jones

Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy. — Charles Horton Cooley

He's going to try to take Megan! I shouted, fury filling me and spilling out in the form of the manifestation. I raced down the hill toward the crossroad, the pack of snarling, jingling, horned hell poodles streaming behind me.
Dane and his hell-poodles — Katie MacAlister

Sustaining grace promises not the absence of struggle but the presence of God. — Max Lucado

There was nothing left to fear. He would endure or he wouldn't. — Raymond E. Feist

Don't you know a kiss would change the world forever? — Theric Jepson

Even though ashrams ... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore. — Deepa Mehta

I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988. — Carol W. Greider

I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story. — Muriel Rukeyser

The older we get the less afraid we are. — Sidney Poitier

My social status leaps after decades of disqualification on grounds of radiation. The doorbell rings and there stands Vanessa Redgrave. 'Marcie,' she begins, and then goes on about social injustice in Namibia, and how we must all build a raft by late afternoon - preferably out of coconut matting. — Morrissey

It may be that places exist in order that memory itself has a home. — David St. John

I never watch 'Sopranos' reruns back home. As far as I am concerned, the nuclear family is still sitting around the luncheonette in New Jersey, munching and chatting, safe and together, and that's how it ended for me. — George Vecsey