Rodkin Quotes & Sayings

But they were not living, thought Harry: They were gone. The empty words could not disguise the fact that his parents' moldering remains lay beneath snow and stone, indifferent, unknowing. And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off or pretending? He let them fall, his lips pressed hard together, looking down at the thick snow hiding from his eyes the place where the last of Lily and James lay, bones now, surely, or dust, not knowing or caring that their living son stood so near, his heart still beating, alive because of their sacrifice and close to wishing, at this moment, that he was sleeping under the snow with them. — J.K. Rowling

f you want something," Tomas had always said "you have to take it. Because nobody's ever going to give it to you. Remember that, little brother. — Morgan Rhodes

Iggy: I'll grab a zebra; Gaz, you fill all the bubbles with your trademark scent. so people are choking and gagging; and let's throw beef jerky in their eyes! Now, that's a plan! — James Patterson

The only people who get any better are those who know that if they don't get any better, God will still love them anyway. — Steve Brown -Key Life Network

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — C.S. Lewis

I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough. — Etel Adnan

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships. — Robert Breault

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it. — Viola Davis

The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity. — Grayson Perry

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors. — Chuck Hagel

Blaming his students for being uninspired was so much easier than doing the work required to inspire them. — Nathan Hill

Whenever anyone suggested that she looked as if she'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, she used to groan loudly and ram in a few more pins until her head was a complete porcupine's back of hairpins! — Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

Scared by the thought , brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some jack-in-the-box of an old iniquity, should leap to light there. — Robert Louis Stevenson

We need relationships that are so shaped by the gospel that we will exhort and encourage one another to trust Jesus every single day. We need gospel-centered discipleship. — Jonathan K. Dodson