Parthemore Obituaries Quotes & Sayings

A bicycle journey through life enhances a person's body, mind and spirit. Each encounter creates an opening for intellectual growth. A bicycle journey promotes exceptional fitness. Two-wheeled travel offers spiritual lifts in ways unexplainable. On a bicycle, you know you live on the edge, at the peak and into the thrust of life. You live it because you choose it. Or, it chooses you and you accept the opportunity. Thus, you command your life." Frosty Wooldridge-- Bicycling Around the World--Tire Tracks for Your Imagination — Frosty Wooldridge

There are two parts to reacting aren't there? How you feel and what you do. And its the thing you do that is the important one. — Ann Leckie

When Sam's having a hard time and being a total baby about the whole thing, I feel so much frustration and rage and self-doubt and worry that it's like a mini-breakdown. I feel like my mind becomes a lake full of ugly fish and big clumps of algae and coral, of feelings and unhappy memories and rehearsals for future difficulties and failures. I paddle around in it like some crazy old dog, and then I remember that there's a float in the middle of the lake and I can swim out to it and lie down in the sun. That float is about being loved, by my friends and by God and even sort of by me. And so I lie there and get warm and dry off, and I guess I get bored or else it is human nature because after a while I jump back into the lake, into all that crap. I guess the solution is just to keep trying to get back to the float. This morning Sam woke at 4:00, so — Anne Lamott

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer. — Anthony Bourdain

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage ... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom ... the freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you. — Paula Giddings

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others. — Otto Rank

No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel. — Kate Morton

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. — Henri Matisse

It is my deepest desire to share the worlds of people we don't often see or read about in media. With my writing I seek to introduce you to the worlds I've always known existed around me and within me. — Casey Curry

Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college. — Anna Chlumsky