Russelia Plant Quotes & Sayings

This much freedom leaves you on your own. More Americans than ever before live alone, but even a family can exist in isolation, just managing to survive in the shadow of a huge military base without a soul to lend a hand. A shiny new community can spring up overnight miles from anywhere, then fade away just as fast. An old city can lose its industrial foundation and two-thirds of its people, while all its mainstays - churches, government, businesses, charities, unions - fall like building flats in a strong wind, hardly making a sound. — George Packer

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Should a man,
to preserve his life, pay everything that gives life colour,
scent
and excitement? Can one accept a life of digestion,
respiration, muscular
and brain activity-and nothing
more? 'Become a walking blueprint? Is this not an
exorbitant price? Is it not a mockery? Should one pay? Seven years in the army and seven years in the camp,twice seven years twice that mythical or biblical term,then to be deprived of the ability to tell what is a man and what is a woman
is not a price extortionate? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The only place we have to come before we die is the place of seeing God. — Ann Voskamp

Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself. — Oswald Chambers

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. — Baltasar Gracian

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. — Chris Van Allsburg

And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'. — Tupac Shakur

I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. — Arthur Ashe