Page 286 Quotes & Sayings

Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds. — Darell Hammond

My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move! — Edmund Waller

They all had ash in their lungs and tears in their eyes. But Wells had blood on his hands. — Kass Morgan

To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run. — Jeff Buckley

Fidel Castro's justice, while seeking refuge with his rebel troops in the Sierra Maestra mountains, was harsh and the penalty for violating some of his rules was death." See page 286, "The Exciting Story of Cuba — Hank Bracker

Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable. — Rebecca Solnit

I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue. — Bob Marley

Maybe, it wasn't stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn't know how. — Shannon L. Alder

On some level, although we can't handle the pain of acknowledging it, Good Friday happens every day. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

IF SOME PREACHER'S AN ASSHOLE, THAT'S NOT PROOF THAT GOD DOESN'T EXIST! (page 286) — John Irving

But all remains unchanged. — Franz Kafka

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer. — Navi Rawat

You can will an act of service but you cannot will love. — Anthony De Mello

I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can't tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can't walk in them, don't wear them. — Christian Louboutin

I thought it was kind of funny when Dionysus ran a Dark-Hunter over with a Mardi Gras float a couple of years ago. That amused me for days on end. He laughed like an evil cartoon villian. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature. — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

The average man thinks that a little falseness goes with beauty. — Thomas Mann