Mnimon Quotes & Sayings

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity ... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous. — Randy Alcorn

When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their land and valuables, and respecting almost nothing about the native cultures. They lost the wisdom of the indigenous peoples-wisdom about the land and connectedness to the great web of life ... We have another chance with all these refugees. People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America ... — Mary Pipher

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist — Jenny Slate

Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant smile of a woman who knows what feeble creatures men can be. You couldn't learn to smile like that. It was something a woman either knew the minute she was born, or never knew at all. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight") — Cornell Woolrich

What we want ... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own. — Howard Gardner

All my adult life, there was the Troubles. That was the backdrop of my life. — James Nesbitt

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Thomas Paine