Osiers Quotes & Sayings

It is hard for us to recognize it now, but Peter and Paul were introducing the first Christian family to an entirely new community, a community that transcends the rigid hierarchy of human institutions, a community in which submission is mutual and all are free. — Rachel Held Evans

We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems — Bill Gates

The whole scene was indecent, mad. It smacked of murder and assassination. — Charles Bukowski

At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that. — Terry Tempest Williams

But the wind playing in the reeds and rushes and osiers. — Kenneth Grahame

The important thing was that I was still on the radio. — Dick Biondi

Even in lies there are sometimes truths revealed. — Terry Brooks

Friendship is much more important to a man than marriage. — Gordon Merrick

In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate. — Edsger Dijkstra

When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn't stand for it — George Best

I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word. — Tertullian

I'm an autistic girl. I have many years to grow. I'm going to rock my life. Just watch me shine — Tina J. Richardson

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. — Octavia Butler

This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself.
The practice is always to go back to oneself. — Nhat Hanh

Tongues were wagging. Aspersions were being cast like dandelion spores on hot gossipy winds. — Craig Silvey

In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain. — Jim Al-Khalili