Pilfers Generation Quotes & Sayings

My parents could not be more Italian. — Edoardo Ponti

She rose and washed and dressed herself and braided her hair freshly, and having made her room neat for the day she went into the peach-tree garden. It lay in the silence of the spring morning. Under the early sun the dew still hung in a bright mist on the grass, and the pool in the center of the garden was brimming its stone walls. The water was clear and the fish were flashing their golden sides near the surface. The great low-built house that surrounded the garden was still in sleep. Birds twittered in the eaves undisturbed and a small Pekingese dog slept on the threshold like a small lioness. — Pearl S. Buck

Do not be anxious and begin to pray. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I would like to coin the phrase alimentary theology, a theology that is more attentive to and welcoming of the multiple layers contained and implied in the making of theology. This is a theology that not only pays closer attention to matters related to food and nourishment, and the many ways they can relate, inspire, and inform theological reflection. Most importantly, it is an envisioning of theology as nourishment: food as theology and theology as food. Alimentary theology is envisioned as food for thought; it addresses some of the spiritual and physical hungers of the world, and seeks ways of bringing about nourishment. — Angel F. Mendez Montoya

Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines. — Adrian Tchaikovsky

Turn a mountain upside down, you have a woman. Turn a woman upside down, you have a valley. Turn a valley upside down, you get folk music. — Tom Robbins

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning. — Robert Bly

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination. — Nelson Mandela

Oh, that explains everything as theoretical. — Deyth Banger

A sinless sinner, banned awhile on earth, But by the dead commended; and with them I shall abide for ever. As for thee, Scorn, if thou wilt, the eternal laws of Heaven. ISMENE — Sophocles

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life! — Horace

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense. — Marilynne Robinson

To grow up at all is to conceal the mass of internal scar tissue that throbs in our dreams. — Ernest Becker

I was glad to see other faces and at the same time disappointed that the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people. — Ishmael Beah