Siolta Quotes & Sayings

of a lady cutting off some guy's head, a cardboard box, a one foot — C.R. Trolson

As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

We can't force a child to learn but we can feed his hunger. — Ted Agon

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. — Warren Buffett

While there is widespread recognition that the War on Drugs is racist and that politicians have refused to invest in jobs or schools in their communities, parents of offenders and ex-offenders still feel intense shame - shame that their children have turned to crime despite the lack of obvious alternatives. One mother of an incarcerated teen, Constance, described her angst this way: "Regardless of what you feel like you've done for your kid, it still comes back on you, and you feel like, 'Well, maybe I did something wrong. Maybe I messed up. You know, maybe if I had a did it this way, then it wouldn't a happened that way.'" After her son's arrest, she could not bring herself to tell friends and relatives and kept the family's suffering private. Constance is not alone. — Michelle Alexander

His sudden and utterly overwhelming panic was over almost before it began; but not quickly enough. In the midst of his brief yet total terror, the King of Pontus shat himself. It went everywhere, solid faeces mixed with what seemed an incredible amount of more liquid bowel contents, a stinking brown mess all over the gold-encrusted purple cloth of his cushion, trickling down the legs of his throne, running down his own legs into the manes of the golden lions upon the flaps of his boots, pooling and plopping on the deck around his feet when he jumped up. And there was nowhere to go! He could not conceal it from the amazed eyes of his attendants and officers, he could not conceal it from the sailors below amidships who had looked up instinctively to make sure their King was safe. — Colleen McCullough

The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love. — Richard B. Garnett

I bent over her and kissed her lips. She embraced me, and we remained like that as the light from the candle sputtered then went out. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Becoming a good steward is more important than you getting your own breakthrough. — Sunday Adelaja

Long after you've forgotten someone's voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body. — Anne Michaels