Mertel Gravel Quotes & Sayings

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings. — Sylvia Earle

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. — Henry Ward Beecher

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away. — Sofia Vergara

Ask. Trust. Give thanks. Simple right? — Dawn Gluskin

Standing before costly objects of technological beauty, we may be tempted to reject the possibility of awe, for fear that we could grow stupid through admiration. We may feel at risk of becoming overimpressed by architecture and engineering, of being dumbstruck by the Bombardier trains that progress driverlessly between satellites or by the General Electric GE90 engines that hang lightly off the composite wings of a Boeing 777 bound for Seoul. And yet to refuse to be awed at all might in the end be merely another kind of foolishness. — Alain De Botton

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art. — Douglas Jardine

I know." The two words ghosted against the skin of her neck, sending goose bumps down her spine. "But I want to touch you. I want to put my hands all over you. I want to kiss every inch of you and taste you as you come apart in my arms. I want to feel you wrapped around me with nothing but my name on your lips and the sheets a tangled mess beneath us. I want ... " He exhaled heavily into her ear. "I want. I want. I want! — Airicka Phoenix

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing. — Zadie Smith