Seadown Quotes & Sayings

I am teaching ... It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros. — Anne Sexton

Lord, will you send me with such an unbelieving heart to persuade others to believe? Must I daily plead with sinners about everlasting life and everlasting death, and have no more belief or feeling of these weighty things myself? Oh send me not naked and unprovided to the work; but, as you command me to do it, furnish me with a spirit suitable thereto." Prayer — Richard Baxter

It's the fucking hardest thing to do - to be around the person you love, every day, and not be able to love them. — Jay McLean

The biggest mistakes most parents make (and believe me, I'm guilty of these too) seem very inconsequential. They're little, day-to-day things that, at the moment, don't seem like a big deal. — Andy Andrews

A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour. — Jesse Ventura

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions. — Marian Wright Edelman

There are three means of believing
by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force; on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter. — Blaise Pascal

I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together. — Mohsin Hamid

Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them. — Jessica Day George

In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity. — Edwin Percy Whipple

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt. — Jason Robert Brown

The first is wake up in the morning and be grateful you are here, alive and healthy. And the second is: Give. — Gisele Bundchen

I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth. — Abbas Kiarostami

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer