Skylarks Hidden Quotes & Sayings

I don't care how people read. I care that they read. — John Green

But at a certain stage of prosperity, as in a balloon ascent, the fortunate person passes through a zone of clouds, and sublunary matters are thenceforward hidden from his view. He sees nothing but the heavenly bodies, all in admirable order, and positively as good as new. He finds himself surrounded in the most touching manner by the attentions of Providence, and compares himself involuntarily with the lilies and the skylarks. He does not precisely sing, of course; but then he looks so unassuming in his open landau! If all the world dined at one table, this philosophy would meet with some rude knocks. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous. — John Mackey

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words. — Camille Paglia

With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information. — Andrew Shue

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Rain with no shoes is just as much fun as rain with big rubber galoshes. — Carew Papritz

He who carved the edges of the cosmos curved Himself into a fetal ball in the dark, tethered Himself to the uterine wall of a virgin, and lets His cells divide, light splitting all white. He gave up the heavens that were not even large enough to contain Him and lets Himself be held in a hand. The mystery so large becomes the Baby so small, and infinite God becomes infant. — Ann Voskamp

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others? — Benjamin Franklin

... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character. — Cirilo F. Bautista

The one: how it is (what it, Being, is) and also how not-Being (is) impossible. This is the pathway of grounded trust, — Martin Heidegger

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me. — Mike Mills