Scapulars On Birds Quotes & Sayings

...Following the bird you lay into a deep turn in the steepening descent. It [the snow] is super soft, bottomless and amazingly light, yet supportive. It feels like something in between floating on top, and within the top of a deep-pile carpet as you link turn after turn down the open glacier. Each side of you are fellow riders, though not too close, whooping with exhilaration and flying down, down towards the valley below. The pitch gets steeper and the slope widens out, with seemingly endless space to the sides and an untracked oblivion ahead and beneath you. Each turn is delicious softness; you can almost feel every snow crystal reacting with the base of your skis. Those skis feel like extensions of your feet, and you connect with the mountain through a portal link created by the snowpack, as the spray from the turn hangs in the air behind you... — Steve Baldwin

Naps can be devils of disorientation. — David Levithan

Unless you love yourself, it's difficult to respect anyone else who holds that high an opinion of you. — Marshall Sylver

When it comes to words Mamma says, If they are not good, then maybe they should not be said. — Annette Bridges

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven. — Desmond Tutu

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values. — Gerald Brenan

I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects were-for, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized. — Mark Twain

I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me. — Tabatha Coffey

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth. — Virgil

I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better. — Oprah Winfrey