Orfelinatul Quotes & Sayings

Though I work in New York City, in an office about a mile from the World Trade Center, I was not in New York City when the planes struck. I was on a plane above the Atlantic Ocean, heading back to New York from a family reunion and celebration in Europe. I had said good-bye to my husband in London; he was staying for a wedding of a business friend. I couldn't wait to see my kids and my parents, who would be waiting for me at a Little League game in our town, about thirty-five miles from New York City. An hour and a half into the flight, I suddenly had the feeling that the plane was making a slow turn. Nobody else seemed to notice. I sat nervously, hoping I was imagining it. But then a stewardess made an announcement. "There has been a catastrophic event affecting all of North American airspace," she said. "We are returning — Lauren Tarshis

People always follow the actions of those in charge. — Dr. David Vik

Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once. — N. T. Wright

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation. — Todd Solondz

The incarnation began with Jesus and it has never stopped ... God takes on flesh so that every home becomes a church, every child becomes the Christ-child, and all food and drink become a sacrament. God's many faces are now everywhere, in flesh, tempered and turned down, so that our human eyes can see him. — Ronald Rolheiser

You think the things you can touch and feel are the things that are real, but they are not. Over time, they all get old and decline. The people, the houses, the rocks and the mountains: one day they will all crumble. This is because they are not as real as the things that last forever. It is another one of the lessons we come to teach. — Kate McGahan

Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that. — Jimmy Cliff

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it. — Michelangelo

Maybe it wasn't God after all, maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy. — Mark Haddon

The child of God has free access to the inner courts of heaven. "For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father." "Let us come boldly," says the apostle, "to the throne of the heavenly grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.' — Prince Andrew