Plateful Chinese Quotes & Sayings

The introduction to horrors so young impressed on me just how helpless and vulnerable I was. Parents are supposed to empower their children to live without them but in my family, I wasn't given permission to be my own person. I thought I needed them to live and then they abandoned me. It's no wonder I felt so unempowered well into my adult years. — Christina Enevoldsen

The trouble is, that this sort of things once it starts, grows. — Agatha Christie

I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy. — Yannis Philippakis

When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God. — Ernest Holmes

I like very minimal stuff. I'm a tomboy at heart - and in body! — Rosa Salazar

I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about. — Malachy McCourt

Between the lines of every story there is another story, and that is one that is never heard and can only be guessed at by the people who are good at guessing. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. — Ambrose Bierce

There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not. — Jonathan Maberry

The wealthiest 300 people have greater riches than the three billion poorest. The three wealthiest people have greater riches than the 48 poorest countries put together. With only limited environmental space to accommodate the expected 9 billion human inhabitants of the world by 2050, such disparities in consumption are clearly not sustainable — Tony Juniper

The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection. — Brene Brown

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be. — Tippi Hedren

In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men. — Robert Green Ingersoll