Raven Baxter Quotes & Sayings

The glory of the elderly is long life with grey hair. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. — Logan Pearsall Smith

America is the only country in the world where you can burn the flag but can't tear the tag off the mattress. — Jackie Mason

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life . — Ludwig Wittgenstein

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad. — Dwight Gooden

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. — Henry Miller

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go. — Jomo Kenyatta

She shocked me. Truly rocked the ground beneath my feet. Made the air shimmer with her power and grace. The woman had slipped free the prison of rules that governed us all and met me halfway to paradise. — Robin Maxwell

Then a movement began among the people. They creaked to their feet, shuffled and fumbled up to the front, kneeling on the floor, and she saw little Thomas at the beginning of the row. The priest turned and made the sign of the cross and all signed themselves; then he came forward and moved along the line, placing the Hosts in the mouths of the people.

Cecil had a very strange feeling; she felt that this was at the same time the most natural and the most unnatural thing she had ever seen. They were like little birds being fed by their mother, and yet it was grown people who knelt to receive what looked like a paper penny of bread on their tongues. She knew at once why the Mass provoked such love and such hate. Either what they believe is true, or else it is a dreadful delusion, she thought. — Meriol Trevor