Sawatzki Obituary Quotes & Sayings

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
[It., Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora
Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.] — Dante Alighieri

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm so glad you're here, Abby. I feel like I just walked into a Molly Ringwald movie. — Jamie McGuire

At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ... — John Geddes

The boy knelt, shoulders bowed, on the sand in the grey of morning, moaning softly, fearfully. Glowing tendrils of energy streamed across the agitated sky, converging high above him in a vortex of brightness. He flung his hands heavenward and a sheet of blinding brilliance descended from the vortex. It enveloped him and from its core a pulsing sphere of light fell, entering his body and almost tearing him apart. He went rigid, screaming to shatter the heavens, his dark eyes bulging from their sockets, his mouth wide in a rictus of agony. Sirius exploded in a burst of silver-blue radiance, as his howl rose to a shriek beyond hearing and endurance. Out of the light and the sound and the anguish, two names imprinted themselves on his mind. One of them, he knew, was his own.
The other floated for an instant above his consciousness like a fugitive white dove in the morning. — J. Valor

If you do not choose the kingdom of God, it does not matter what you choose instead. — Gordon B. Hinckley

If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that. — Margaret Thatcher

You got to get it while you can — Janis Joplin

So this is it what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty. — Jennifer Egan

I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude. — Alber Elbaz

I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings. — Hesham Qandil

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge. — Pearl S. Buck

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand