Rootage Interior Quotes & Sayings

Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words. — Frank Herbert

We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. O how many Messengers did we slay? O how many imams? We killed you and you prayed the night prayer, as all of our days are struggle - and all of our days are Karbala. — Nizar Qabbani

From the seed of the siver apple came the wardrobe.
Through the wardrobe came four children.
To these children came a special magic.
With that magic came seven unforgettable stories. — Mary Jane Wilkins

We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might ... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling. — Cecil Frances Alexander

I watched a man slowly ate to death. — Rose Wynters

My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea. — Randall Park

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Rain fell more steadily now. Grey and unrelenting. Nobody seemed to notice. Rain on the puddles. Rain on the high brickwork. Rain on the slate roofs. Rain on the rain itself. — Colum McCann

If you want to be right, I can give you that satisfaction. You're in the right; but I'm going all the same. — Leo Tolstoy

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch. — Lilith Saintcrow

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets. — Barbara Kingsolver

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything. — Robin Quivers

It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people. — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick