Sonterra Country Quotes & Sayings

When things come to an end in a way you didn't expect, in a way you never could have imagined, do they really come to an end? Does it mean you should keep searching, for better answers, for ones that don't keep you up at night? Or does it mean it's time to make peace? — Monica Hesse

I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese. — Kevin Kwan

We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And. I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And, but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible at that time. — Stephen Hawking

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled? — Epictetus

Your purity is not based on what you've done with your body. It's based on what Jesus did with His. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

from the trunk the way a branch grows from a tree. It begins to bud at just four weeks' gestation, and over three subsequent weeks divides into a rudimentary hand, forearm and upper arm, then rotates through ninety degrees. It's the movement of those muscles as the arm grows and rotates, and the fixed origin of the nerves in the neck, which provide the warp and weave of the brachial plexus. Homer — Gavin Francis

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience. — Louise DeSalvo

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don't put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing. — Antonio Machado

there is no such thing as a good tax — Winston S. Churchill

When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today ... 40,000 flights took place without incident." They don't say that. — Richard Patrick

You'll never know what your mother went through. — Sarah Manguso

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. — George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes broken hearts are needed, that way you will appreciate the one that handles it with care. — Lilly Ghalichi

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved. — Bernice Johnson Reagon

When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself — Earl Nightingale