Mucklestone John Quotes & Sayings

There's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder. — Richard L. Evans

If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic. — Maria Montessori

I have work to do as a human being. — Maria Thayer

People don't want to read subtitles. — Stellan Skarsgard

My father sits at the head of a table before the carcass of an enormous American turkey. What he is ashamed of is the one act of decency I have yet encountered in all the tales of our family's past. A young boy with a dead father and a dead friend bends down before a country dog and feeds it his butter sandwich. And I know that sandwich. Because he has made it for me. Two slices of that dark, unbleached Russian bread, the kind that tastes of badly managed soil and a peasant's indifference to death. On top of it, the creamiest, deadliest of American butter, slathered in thick feta-like hunks. And on top of that cloves of garlic, the garlic that is to give me strength, that is to clear my lungs of asthmatic gunk, and make of me a real garlic-eating strong man. At a table in Leningrad, and a table in deepest Queens, New York, the ridiculous garlic crunches beneath our teeth as we sit across from each other, the garlic obliterating whatever else we have eaten, and making us one. — Gary Shteyngart

George feels a kind of patriotism for the freeways. He is proud that they are so fast, that people get lost on them and even sometimes panic and have to bolt for safety down the nearest cutoff. George loves the freeways because he can still cope with them; because the fact that he can cope proves his claim to be a functioning member of society. He can still get by. — Christopher Isherwood

Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain. — Julian Of Norwich

I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our house for nine months. — David Walton

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us? — Alfred De Vigny