Springhill Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? — Ray Bradbury

There is a finite group of major financial players ... and overall, the best thing for all of us is to be in an industry that's well respected, well regarded, and well thought of. — Gary Cohn

I was stunned. Fernando looked out, still screaming horrible threats at his daughter. He had thrown her like a thing. — Elena Ferrante

Well hello," Caitlin said, eyeing the shepherd. "The last time I saw you, you were wearing your heart on your sleeve. Because I ripped it out and put it there. — Craig Schaefer

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us. — Robert Bly

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
When you take your pill
it's like a mine disaster.
I think of all the people
lost inside you. — Richard Brautigan

You do not get to choose the events that come your way nor the sorrows that interrupt your life. They will likely be a surprise to you, catching you off quard and unprepared. You may hold your head in your hands and lament your weak condition and wonder what you ought to do. To suffer, that is common to all. To suffer and still keep your composure, your faith and your smile, that is remarkable. Pain will change you more profoundly than success or good fortune. Suffering shapes your perception of life, your values and priorities, and your goals and dreams. Your pain is changing you, — David Crosby

When we arrive at dilemmas in life and we are unable to decipher the right direction to go, if we hope to maintain our confidence in the process, we must (repeat must) allow the Lord to be our Guide, our Strength, our Wisdom - our all! — Charles R. Swindoll

Grandma always has an opinion, especially about other people. — Renata Suerth

Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen. — T. S. Eliot

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism. — Tim Winton

I thought, 'What if I were 17, and it was my small town of Springhill, Louisiana? How would I feel if people started flooding in to see some bird?' — John Corey Whaley

I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be. — Mary Shelley

What is more, as J. R. R. Tolkien reminds us in his great essay on Beowulf, there is a danger that attends rational and scientific description: "a plain pure fairy story dragon" can be ruined at the hands of a logical analysis. The interpreter, "unless he is careful, and speaks in parables, will kill what he is studying by vivisection, and he will be left with a formal or mechanical allegory, and, what is more, probably with one that will not work. For myth is alive at once and all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected. — Gregory Alan Thornbury

There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People — Errol Morris

He probably would've raised an eyebrow in that annoying/hot way he had, and made a dirty joke about Elodie possessing me. — Rachel Hawkins

What the Bible does not mention, but what must be true is that, years later, Lazarus still died. The people Jesus healed were inevitably sick again at some point in their lives. The people Jesus fed miraculously were hungry again a few days later. More important than the very obvious might and power shown by Jesus' miracles is His love. He loved these people enough to do everything in His power to "make it better." He entered into their suffering and loved them right there. — Katie J. Davis