Promiseland Farmington Quotes & Sayings

Ephemeral spectator of an eternal spectacle, man raises for a second his eyes to Heaven, and closes them for ever; but, during that rapid second that is granted to him, from all the quarters of Heaven, and from the outer limits of the Universe, a consoling ray darts from each world and meets his eyes, to announce to him that some connection exists between him and infinity, and that even he is linked to eternity. — Xavier De Maistre

ANTHONY DOERR is the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won numerous prizes both in the United States and overseas, including four O. Henry Prizes, three Pushcart Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Raised in Cleveland, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons. — Anthony Doerr

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad. — Plato

Be glad. Be good. Be brave. — Eleanor H. Porter

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation. — Jane Haddam

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won. — Lloyd Alexander

Narcissistic love is riding on the rollecoaster of disaster filled with a heart full of tears. — Sheree' Griffin

I am not interested in standing for what I believe in, but in standing for the truth. I and my conscience are liars. God's law is truth. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Germany and Israel should dream together for a Middle East in which all the countries are willing to exchange the dispute of the parents with peace for their children. — Shimon Peres

If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies' security teams' files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It's just more efficient. — Kevin Mitnick

My hair was growin' too long, so I got me a fade
And when my dishes got dirty, I got cascade
And When the weather was hot, I got a spot in the shade. — Special Ed

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody. — William Weld

I see this fella built like a barn door ... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something. — John Prescott

I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn't laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die. — Miranda July

If in a relationship there is no tension [meaning no deepening of knowledge of self and others], it ceases to be a relationship and merely becomes a comfortable sleep state, an opiate - which most people want and prefer. — Charlotte Kasl