Pumpkinseed Fish Quotes & Sayings

After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. — Robert Hass

We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help. — John Sweeney

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil. — John Calvin

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism. — Stephen Covey

Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise. — Charles Hodge

Sensitivity says it all,
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Worldpoet 546
September 5, 2016
Babaji — Petra Hermans

Work hard in school and listen to your parents. They really do want the very best for you and have been where you're going. — Rob Paulsen

Will you beat me if I say no?" he whispered fearfully.
September thought she might cry. "Oh ... oh dear. Not all the world is like that. Well. I am not like that. — Catherynne M Valente

My mother's father was just called "The Governor," or "Himself." Which, if you have sixteen kids, probably isn't as crazy as it sounds. — Kathy Griffin

Video et taceo,' he said — Michael Scott