Runcie Parkland Quotes & Sayings

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view. — David Livingstone

When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw. — Samuel Rutherford

Maryam closed her eyes and listened as Noruz began. 'You know that every spring, crocuses grow in the courtyard outside. They come from the dirt, green shoots from nothing. One day the flowers come purple as night, the nights when we were young. And inside the petals, saffron grows the color of blood. Then they die, and the ground is dirt again where chickens shit. That's the way of things: saffron, shit, saffron, shit.' Maryam smiled at the word in Noruz's mouth. 'I was sad and Dr. Ahlavi told me this: to remember that saffron comes from the dirt. — Yasmin Crowther

We started seeing motion as a sign of success and transition as a sign of progress. — Jon Acuff

He who turns the other cheek is a cowardly dog
a Christian dog. — Ragnar Redbeard

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name — Ernest Dimnet

I'm gonna stick your head so far up your *ss your gonna have to cut holes in your nipples to see! — Dwayne Johnson

It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most pleasant thing. — Barry Sanders