Sitting Around A Campfire Quotes & Sayings

Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs. — Bob Uecker

If you died right now, how would you feel about your life? — Chuck Palahniuk

What was the appeal? Particularly from the very young? A need to belong? some twisted tribal urge? how easy it is for the power-hungry to seduce those who want answers. But were they that different from myself? We all want answers, we all want the "truth"--confirmation that the universe is a good place and that we're protected from harm. We all want to believe there is an order. — Connie Di Marco

I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them ... '
-Father Zossima — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own. — Richard Francis Burton

If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives. — Joyce Meyer

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town. — Steve Martin

Regulation of the sacred liturgy depends solely on the authority of the Church, that is, on the Apostolic See and, as laws may determine, on the bishop. In virtue of power conceded by the law, the regulation of the liturgy within certain defined limits belongs also to various kinds of competent territorial bodies of bishops legitimately established. Therefore no other person, even if he be a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority. — Pope Paul VI

Healing hurts. If you break your leg, there is no stage in the healing process when your leg feels better than it does after it has healed. There is pain and itching and loss of strength. From the moment your leg is broken, it continues to feel bad ... until, gradually, it starts to feel less bad. It's appropriate that it hurts. — Emily Nagoski

Without a shadow of a doubt, the first fiction ever recounted was fantasy. Guys sitting around the campfire telling each other stories about the gods who made lightning, and stuff like that. They did not tell one another literary stories. They did not complain about difficulties of male menopause while being a junior lecturer on some midwestern college campus. Fantasy is without a shadow of a doubt the ur-literature, the spring from which all other literature has flown. — Terry Pratchett

Clifford, except for Phoebe's more active instigation, would ordinarily have yielded to the torpor which had crept through all his modes of being, and which sluggishly counselled him to sit in his morning chair, till eventide. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire. — Phil Keoghan

What can that mean except that women's sexuality is what really defines them, not their brains and gifts and individuality and character, and certainly not their wishes or their ambitions or their will? — Katha Pollitt

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons. — Norton Juster

All our works must pass through fire. Some of them will be burnt out and those that are left will be our good and useful works for the Kingdom of God — Sunday Adelaja

Running is very spiritual for me. It is therapeutic; it clears my mind and helps me to focus. — Amy Locane