Seibels Burtonsville Quotes & Sayings

Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of adjustments, adaptations, modifications and providential tinkerings stretching back to 3,8 billion years. Remarkably we are even quite closely related to fruit and vegetables. About half the chemical functions that take place in a banana are fundamentally the same as the chemical functions that place in you. It cannot be said too often: all life is one. That is, and I suspect will ever prove to be, the most profound true statement there is. — Bill Bryson

We were sharing a rare point in time, contemplative, and the moment was made complete by his vintage sunglasses, bringing the night indoors. — Don DeLillo

Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance? — Keith Crown

When we praise God in the midst of our "darkness," God is moved by our faith. — E'yen A. Gardner

A queer and almost mad notion seems to have got into the modern head that, if you mix up everybody and everything more or less anyhow, the mixture may be called unity, and the unity may be called peace. It is supposed that, if you break down all doors and walls so that there is no domesticity, there will then be nothing but friendship. Surely somebody must have noticed by this time that the men living in a hotel quarrel at least as often as the men living in a street. — G.K. Chesterton

We don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it. If we're talking about a Claiming Moon, this is about — Kami Garcia

A poem does not exist in and of itself but instead exists only in relation to the human being, Wilhelm wrote to Savigny, just as the sun in effect does not shine when we have our eyes closed. — Ann Schmiesing

The promise of a dreamer's future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity. — Wayne Cordeiro

And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"
I hope you understand its right to inverted commas- — Friedrich Nietzsche

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films. — Mira Nair

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge. — Thomas Jefferson

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive. — Hayao Miyazaki

Now no sign, no scorch or char, marks the place where George built the fire. Remarkable, earth's strength to restore itself and erase human effort. But memory, stronger still, can send flames as high as the roof, and shift the wind and choke George and sting his eyes with smoke ... — Larry Watson