Shortland Horne Quotes & Sayings

Are we running away from home?" I asked, giving voice to the question that had been on my mind for two days, ever since the lady at the Wok On restaurant asked where we were from and my mother lied.
My mother had laughed. I couldn't see her face, but her laugh I could always conjure - rich, ringing, like bells calling you to a wedding. "No, silly goose. You can't run away from home. It's not home if you want to run away from it." She paused to brush a strand of hair from my face. "You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward. — Michele Jaffe

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained. — Richard John Neuhaus

This is a great day for France! — Richard M. Nixon

Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to what is best — John C. Maxwell

Some people are born to rub you the wrong way. Brother Gemt was born to rub the world the wrong way. — Mark Lawrence

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep. — Gene Tierney

Pierce through the livid face of a human being at certain moments as they ponder, look behind the facade, look into the soul, look into the darkness. There, beneath the outer silence, titanic struggles are taking place. What a somber thing is this infinity that each man carries within him and against which he measures in despair what his his brain wants and what his life puts into action! — Victor Hugo