Patriation Canada Quotes & Sayings

Standing amid the tan, excited post-Christmas crowd at the Southwest Florida Regional Airport, Rabbit Angstrom has a funny sudden feeling that what he has come to meet, what's floating in unseen about to land, is not his son Nelson and daughter-in-law Pru and their two children but something more ominous and intimately his: his own death, shaped vaguely like an airplane. — John Updike

My good films were independent and my bad films were not. — Ralph Bakshi

Many have tried to kill us. All have failed.
-Valek — Maria V. Snyder

Here's the simple truth that isn't so simple: Raising kids to be different from the world really does make them different from the world. — Kristen Welch

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings. — Julius Wellhausen

Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. — William Cowper

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has. — Don McLean

I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them. — Richard Simmons

In New Orleans they have mastered the art of the motionless. In — Joan Didion

Coming to interior stillness requires waiting. — Brennan Manning

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen ... — Simone De Beauvoir

We saw this cross-level coherence in the analysis of personality: If your lower-level traits match up with your coping mechanisms, which in turn are consistent with your life story, your personality is well integrated and you can get on with the business of living. When these levels do not cohere, you are likely to be torn by internal contradictions and neurotic conflicts.34 You might need adversity to knock yourself into alignment. And if you do achieve coherence, the moment when things come together may be one of the most profound of your life. Like the moviegoer who later finds out what she missed in the first half hour, your life will suddenly make more sense. Finding coherence across levels feels like enlightenment,35 and it is crucial for answering the question of purpose within life. — Jonathan Haidt

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. — Pablo Picasso

Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don't see opportunities. — Frederick Lenz