Meritage Quotes & Sayings

I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up. — Bryce Dallas Howard

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated. — Hugh Sidey

Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation. — Frederick Lenz

Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand. — Dana Rohrabacher

And here are trees and I know their gnarled surface, water and I feel its taste. These scents of grass and stars at night, certain evenings when the heart relaxes-how shall I negate this world whose power and strength I feel? Yet all the knowledge on earth will give me nothing to assure me that this world is mine. You describe it to me and you teach me to classify it. You enumerate its laws and in my thirst for knowledge I admit that they are true. You take apart its mechanism and my hope increases. At the final stage you teach me that this wondrous and multicolored universe can be reduced to the atom and that the atom itself can be reduced to the electron. All this is good and I wait for you to continue. But you tell me of an invisible planetary system in which electrons gravitate around a nucleus. You explain this world to me with an image. I realize then that you have been reduced to poetry: I shall never know. — Albert Camus

I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV. — Nathan Fillion

When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl. — Tom Douglas

I do think there's a mind-set - no matter how much we may want to deny it in this country - about the perception of blackness. And sometimes it's a subconscious mind-set. Where anything associated with blackness has a negative connotation. This mind-set has a very fundamental assumption. A false assumption that black people cannot be intelligent. I — Jeanne Marie Laskas

The fact that their [the flower children's] uniforms and their jargons precisely represented the distances they had yet to cover before arriving at that maturity which makes love possible - or no longer possible - could not be considered their fault. They had been born into a society in which nothing was harder to achieve, in which perhaps nothing was more scorned and feared than the idea of the soul's maturity. — James Baldwin

And from the perspective of those in need, that extra quarter of a million bucks your material person spent on the prestige addition for his house looks like an awful lot of lifesaving food and medicine that could have existed if the jerk with the big house in the suburbs hadn't blown it all to artificially inflate his sociogeographic penis. — Jim Butcher

My two worlds just collided. Surprisingly, everything's all right. — Angie Thomas

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about. — Peter Benchley