Pinterest Mothering Quotes & Sayings

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money ... — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

circumstances - not necessarily in holiness and radiant light, but often in confusion among people with deep problems. — Tim Stafford

We are not killers," Gideon says firmly.
"In my experience everyone is a killer." Baz's eyes go cold. He leans back against the wall. "Or a victim. Some people just need a little coaxing to choose a side. — Paula Stokes

A joke is never a joke if it is at the expense of another person's feelings — Heather Wolf

movies are the most bastardized form of art? — Anupama Chopra

Tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That's why we've got to make sure we pass it on. — Billie Letts

My Invented Country; it resembles a heart-shaped paradise. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

On the stern quarterdeck, Leo rushed around like a madman, checking his gauges and wrestling levers. Most helmsmen would've been satisfied with a pilot's wheel of a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a dubstep soundboard, and motion-control sensors from a Nintendo Wii. He could turn the ship by pulling the throttle, fire weapons by sampling an album, or raise sails by shaking his Wii controllers really fast. Even by demigod standards, Leo was seriously ADHD. — Rick Riordan

Yesterday should be the teacher of today. — Publilius Syrus

In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist. — John Sweeney

Jesus was born with the cross darkening His pathway ... From the cradle to the cross, [Jesus'] purpose was to die. — Billy Graham

Both revelation and delusion are attempts at the solution of problems. Artists and scientists realize that no solution is ever final, but that each new creative step points the way to the next artistic or scientific problem. In contrast, those who embrace religious revelations and delusional systems tend to see them as unshakeable and permanent ... Religious faith is an answer to the problem of life ... The majority of mankind want or need some all-embracing belief system which purports to provide an answer to life's mysteries, and are not necessarily dismayed by the discovery that their belief system, which they proclaim as "the truth," is incompatible with the beliefs of other people. One man's faith is another man's delusion ... Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.* ANTHONY STORR, FEET OF CLAY — Jon Krakauer

Setting out around midnight, I couldn't help shaking my head, "We're the goddamned hottest vampire hunters ever." I muttered. — Richelle Mead

How do you want to die, Admiral? We are D'Angeline. At the hand of numbers, or dreams? — Jacqueline Carey