Nummis Quotes & Sayings

It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use. pg 66 — Edith Schaeffer

Let us have peace. — Ulysses S. Grant

The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study. — Karen Joy Fowler

Libraries are our friends. — Neil Gaiman

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus. — George MacDonald

Five years of love , and they only fit in such a small box. — Ana Tejano

The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into "the valley of the shadow of death." But faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink. — William Mountford

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it. — Audrey Hepburn

Flowers for me are just things to give to a beatiful woman. — Blake Lewis