Riverbend Baghdad Burning Quotes & Sayings

We can be mended. — Veronica Roth

Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded. — Federico Mayor Zaragoza

We're living proof that nice guys always finish last. — Matthew Cooper

It takes a lot of good songs to write a great song! — Sydney Sierota

I really do believe that the bottom line that creates transformation in the individual is the ability to focus your attention in an ever greater and more subtle way, and that follows the whole path of the limbs. — Beryl Bender Birch

MarkBaynard: I figured out in the first grade that it was better to crack a joke than somebody's skull. — Teresa Medeiros

May 20, '95 - Mississippi calls. She says, "All my working life I have done things to help black people. I can drive into the black part of town where no white person would dare to go. I have nothing to fear. They say, 'Hi there, Mizz Mississippi.' I still call them niggers, but only because of the way they act. I'd have an affair with Johnnie Cochran in a minute." Once she said to me, "I don't see why I should have to feel guilty about the Holocaust. It's not my fault." I hadn't been talking or thinking about the Holocaust, and hadn't told anyone to feel guilty. Her remark came out of nowhere. We were in a diner, about to have a sandwich and suddenly the moment was explosive. Simply being a Jew arouses a peculiar expectation mixed with resentment, even in a highly intelligent woman. Amazing to me is that she doesn't do much but watch television, drink beer, and smoke Marlboros, and yet seethes with dark thoughts and tumultuous feeling. — Leonard Michaels

If you're lucky enough to be different, don't you ever changed - Taylor Swift — E. Nesbit

S. P. T. to A. P. W. B. D. Dark — J.K. Rowling

These are the woes of Slaves;
They glare from the abyss;
They cry, from unknown graves,
We are the Witnesses! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Don't worry, Duffy. I like you. We'll kill you last. — Adrian McKinty

In a life full of work, family, civic responsibilities, commutes and errands, your training runs offer fertile opportunity to lean inward and listen. — Gina Greenlee

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones ... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not. — Cennino Cennini