Merville Subdivision Quotes & Sayings

Life was short, and I wanted to make Angel laugh every damn day of our lives. — J.L. Weil

At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time. — Jodi Picoult

This time as we ascend, I watch the world sinking below us. I watch the way the city fades into sand that gets washed by the ocean. — Lauren DeStefano

The only struggle came from me wanting more for my family and feeling like if they had one less individual to take care of - if my mom only had her and my sister and my grandmother and my aunt to take care of, couldn't she do the things she was doing for me for herself? That's the reason I took myself away from my family. I left home when I was 13 years old to assume the responsibilities of being a man. — Petey Pablo

Finding practical answers to tough problems seems to take a backseat to ideology. — Christopher R. Hill

if everyone is a genius, then nobody is. I — Eric Weiner

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Then realized she wasn't there. Or - she was there and she wasn't. Part of her was there, but it was invisible. The invisible part was the important part. This was something I had never understood before. But when I tried to say this out loud the words came out in a muddle and I realized with a cold slap that I was wrong. Both parts had to be together. You couldn't have one part without the other. — Donna Tartt

've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but afraid to emulate. Impostor narratives are exactly that. When they end in disaster, as Clark's did, or as Gatsby's did, we can congratulate ourselves for our own wisdom. We can also experience, safely, at no cost, the terrible thrill of radical self-invention, of trading who we are for who we might be. — Walter Kirn

I am everyone's friend,'I said.'Except to my enemies. — Anthony Burgess

Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important. — Allan Ray

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. — Bernard Williams

A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
You'll miss her when she's gone. — Frank McCourt

I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments. — Z'EV

When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach. — Andrew Cherng