Ostergard Obituaries Quotes & Sayings

Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity. — David Fontana

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes. — Jack Whittaker

A good friend is one of the hardest things to keep in this life. Don't forget that sometimes you have to work at it. — Suzanne LaFleur

I am amazed at the seeker of purity
When time for polishing comes
Complaints of harsh treatment
Love is a lawsuit
Without evidence, you will not win
My son, when one beats the rug The beating is not intended against the rug
But against the dust inside the rug
My son, that harsh treatment
Is not intended against you
But against the ill qualities inside you — Rumi

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty. — River Phoenix

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. — Dennis Lehane

I will never forget, one day [when I] was six years old and I was playing beside the road and this plantation owner drove up to me and stopped and asked me, could I pick cotton.' I told him I didn't know and he said, Yes, you can. I will give you things that you want from the commissary store,' and he named things like crackerjacks and sardines--and it was a huge list that he called off. So I picked the 30 pounds of cotton that week, but I found out what actually happened was he was trapping me into beginning the work I was to keep doing and I never did get out of his debt again. My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear. — Fannie Lou Hamer

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves. — Gabe Newell

Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king. — John Smith

[I wanted silence in the flowers, not to not say, but to not have the impulse of saying.] — Dawn Lundy Martin

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me. — Mark Strand

Oh, to be a Chinaman, wished Francie, and have such a pretty toy to count on; oh, to eat all the lichee nuts she wanted and to know the mystery of the iron that was ever hot and yet never stood on a stove. Oh, to paint those symbols with a slight brush and a quick turn of the wrist and to make a clear black mark as fragile as a piece of a butterfly wing! That was the mystery of the Orient in Brooklyn. — Betty Smith

Even if you were to fall into extreme financial hardship and file for bankruptcy, you need to understand that your student loan debt will not be discharged in bankruptcy. It is the Velcro of all debts. — Suze Orman