Penton Quotes & Sayings

Everybody in Penton, even Hannah, was ridiculously strong - what did they put in their Wheaties? — Susannah Sandlin

Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water. — John O'Donohue

If it was scandalous for girls in the 1960s to wear pants to school, what else will we look back on & shake our heads at? What else can't we see in the future? And at that, what else can we dream up? — Lisa Factora-Borchers

Our story gives a teaching diametrically opposite. It says that where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be. Wherever the wound appears in our psyches, whether from alcoholic father, shaming mother, shaming father, abusing mother, whether it stems from isolation, disability, or disease, that is precisely the place for which we will give our major gift to the community. — Robert Bly

Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station. — Patricia Penton Leimbach

How quickly someone else's life can enter through the cracks we don't know are there until this foreign thing is inside of us. We are more porous than we know. — Emily Ruskovich

Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else. — Patricia Penton Leimbach

For usage-based theorists, acquisition of language, while impressive, is not the only remarkable feat accomplished by the child. They compare it to other cognitive and perceptual learning, including learning to 'see'. That is, the visual abilities that we take for granted, for example, focusing on and interpreting objects in our visual field, are actually learned through experience. — Patsy M. Lightbown

Though the brain says all is well, the soul is lost, confused, doesn't know why life is being unfair to it. — Paulo Coelho

She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go. — Gregory Maguire

I always did feel beautiful when I was pregnant, but I do feel more me when I'm my normal size. — Heidi Klum

Pia was blackmailed into committing a crime more suicidal than she could possibly have imagined, and she had no one to blame but herself. — Thea Harrison

These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense. — Frank Iero

it says: "In no case did he appeal to the rabbinic schools of teaching with their traditions and precepts of men. He faithfully referred his — M. James Penton

For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity. — Patricia Penton Leimbach