Nettie Sparrow Quotes & Sayings

Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do. — Marina Abramovic

Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk - lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say O.K. Why do I feel so sorry for everyone and so proud? — Maira Kalman

My soul is in the sky. — William Shakespeare

You are what you think about all day long. — Robert H. Schuller

I'm definitely going to bounce back, I don't doubt that one bit. The thing about this is you have to expect that when you're a back my age. You can't feel slighted if someone says that because it's a reality that it's abnormal for a guy my age to still be starting in the NFL. I can accept that. I still understand what the truth is to me, and that's what I believe. I don't really care what people say. — Curtis Martin

Ethics are my veiled mistress; I love them, but know not what they are. — Robert Louis Stevenson

You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward. — Matt Holliday

Everybody wants to own the end of the world. — Don DeLillo

I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. / I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn't have at dusk. — Joy Harjo

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth. — Mason Cooley

Paying to teach in the trenches was like putting my face through a cutout hole at a carnival while a quarterback threw pies at me. At least with a carnival, I'd see it coming. — Erin Gruwell