Pearl Parkin Quotes & Sayings

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem. — Carlo Rovelli

Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism. — Rebecca Pippert

Upon the haunted stairway
I have heard them oft before;
In this olden house, returning,
They haunt me evermore.

Strangers have never heard them--
I know they all are mine,
Rising, O heart, and dying
On that haunted stair of thine.

To me forever returning
Myself forever fled,
Startling the stair forever and ever,
I hear my footsteps dead! — John James Piatt

Once, when Giselle was alive, he thought about the future. Now he only thought about the past. — Mitch Albom

Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way. — Pope John Paul II

He's assisting me with a personal project."

Melody grinned. "Uh-huh, right. You couldn't find your tonsils so he stopped by to help you look for them. Search to be continued this Friday. If you want my advice, you should have him hunt for something really important, like your G-spot. — Samanthe Beck

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius

Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation? — Zig Ziglar

Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement ... Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided. — Thomm Quackenbush

It's amazing how fast you can run when there's a f**king rottweiler chasing you. — David Bowick

Pearl spent the passing days buried so deep in the musty, dusty sorcery tomes that sometimes when she emerged, she spoke in archaic english. "Hast thou a light?" she'd asked him this afternoon when her study room had grown dark with gathering clouds. — Gail Dayton

She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mountibg a carriage — Gail Dayton

I maintain that a student's memory is largely the teacher's responsibility. — Pimsleur

The warmth in his eyes flared to heat and he captured her hand in both of his, bending over it to hold his lips against the back a long moment. He did not exactly kiss it so much as breathe her in. She feared her hand smelled of bacon, but he didn't seem to care. — Gail Dayton

Geniuses don't become geniuses until they find the right moron to compare themselves to. — James McGregor

He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than delicacy, made her affection appear of greater consequence, because it was witheld, and determined him to have the glory, as well as the felicity of forcing her to love him. — Jane Austen

Cowboy: New York hood talk means kill the mother fucker wherever you find him. A rat is a rat is a rat is a rat. Is an informer. — William S. Burroughs

Pleased as punch. That's an odd-sounding turn of phrase, isn't it? How can a punch be pleased? It's punch. Rum and lemons and such. And if it's the other sort of punch they mean, a punch in the face- well that doesn't sound very pleasing at all, does it? — Gail Dayton

Either God exists or he does not. There is no middle ground. Both cannot be true. No amount of philosophical trickery can hide from the greatest antithesis of them all ... We cannot leave this question for the intellectuals, scientists, philosophers and theologians alone ... We must answer it for ourselves. — Joe Boot