Peppertrees Quotes & Sayings

D-Bo had a great game, so now a lot of teams, they're not sure what to do. They can't just key on me. They've got to key on both of us. D-Bo had a coming-out party. — Calvin Johnson

L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like a deal that never goes down, a meeting that's never taken. The City of Angels: where every cockroach has a screenplay and even the winos wear roller skates. It's that kind of town. — Ian Shoales

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time. — Meryl Streep

If Christians read Holy Scripture, they will grow in the Knowledge of Christ. And be filled with the grace of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But surely the idea that one might slip away unseen and take up another life is nearly universal. Is there anything more fundamentally human than the desire to live in another world, as someone other than our own earthbound selves? — Jennifer Finney Boylan

The yellow moon dreamily
tipping buttons of light
down among the leaves. Marimba,
marimba - from beyond the
black street.
Somebody dancing,
somebody
getting the hell
outta here. Shadows of cats
weave round the treetrunks,
the exposed knotty roots.
("Scenes from the Life of the Peppertrees") — Denise Levertov

The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me. — Taylor Swift

They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission. — Bell Hooks

It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a knowledge, I am sure, of those saving principles upon which our eternal life will depend. — Henry D. Taylor

Watch the littlest kids carefully; the biggest messages for the grown-ups are hidden there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it. — Brigitte Bardot

I am not a planner. I follow. Tell me what to do and no man alive does it better. But my mind is like fine wine; it travels badly. — William Goldman

I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons. — Ruth Rendell

I was silly to care, or to even try when all was dusted. I look back now, stronger and happier than ever before with no absolutely no regrets to a path with so much more, a path where I could have done much better, in which I will, laughing at the past with no regret. — X