Parachial Quotes & Sayings

Can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be! — Eric Jerome Dickey

The Moors were beautiful in their own way, and if their beauty was the quiet sort that required time and introspection to be seen, well, there was nothing wrong with that. The best beauty was the sort that took some seeking. — Seanan McGuire

Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny. — Daniel Goleman

Did you alltake your pants off? The swim team really knows how to throw a party. — Jennifer Echols

Absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

Dear God,
Reveal to me through stories something of what it is like to walk around in someone else's shoes.
Show me something about myself in the stories I read, something that needs changing, a thought, a feeling or attitude.
Deliver me from myself, O God, and from the parachial and sometimes prejudiced views I have of other people, other nations, other races, other religions.
Enlarge by heart with a story, and change me by the characters I meet there.
May some of the light from their lives spill over into mine, giving me illumination where there was once ignorance, compassion where there was once contempt. — Ken Gire

The day is breaking someone else's heart. — James Merrill

Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy. — Milan Kundera

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be. — Roger Miret