Stenstrom Rockford Quotes & Sayings

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing. — Rudolf Bing

I should at least have learned more about how it had come to be that Rema had abandoned her mother, before I asked her to marry - and hopefully not abandon - me. But I saw Rema all prismatically, all fractured and reconstituted as if seen in the valley of an unshined silver spoon and actually I'm glad love does that, I shouldn't complain about love or love's perspective - distorted or no, to feel superior to it would be wrong, as if there were some better way of seeing. — Rivka Galchen

I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core. — Lauren Slater

I feel the need to fill the silence, like it's my fault it's even awkward in the first place. — Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. — Gloria Steinem

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? — L.M. Montgomery

The foolish took their lamps, but took no oil (pursued ministry as their priority over getting oil). The wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps (pursued oil as their priority before ministry). At the dark midnight hour of history, the Spirit will raise up forerunners who cry out that Jesus is coming as a Bridegroom God and that we must go out to meet Him (make the necessary effort to encounter Him). They all slept which speaks of living in context to the natural processes of life. — Mike Bickle

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon. — James Fenton

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery. — Janet Erskine Stuart

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. — Lord Chesterfield

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is. — Nick Price

Paper Matches
My aunts washed dishes while the uncles
squirted each other on the lawn with
garden hoses. Why are we in here,
I said, and they are out there?
That's the way it is,
said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one.
I have the rages that small animals have,
being small, being animal.
Written on me was a message,
"At Your Service,"
like a book of paper matches.
One by one we were taken out
and struck.
We come bearing supper,
our heads on fire. — Paulette Jiles

I always seem to be reading several books at once. — Drew Gilpin Faust