Sunam Quotes & Sayings

You learn to forgive (the South) for its narrow mind and growing pains because it has a huge heart. You forgive the stifling summers because the spring is lush and pastel sprinkled, because winter is merciful and brief, because corn bread and sweet tea and fried chicken are every bit as vital to a Sunday as getting dressed up for church, and because any southerner worth their salt says please and thank you. It's soft air and summer vines, pine woods and fat homegrown tomatoes. It's pulling the fruit right off a peach tree and letting the juice run down your chin. It's a closeted and profound appreciation for our neighbors in Alabama who bear the brunt of the Bubba jokes. The South gets in your blood and nose and skin bone-deep. I am less a part of the South than it is part of me. It's a romantic notion, being overcome by geography. But we are all a little starry-eyed down here. We're Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara and Rosa Parks all at once. — Amanda Kyle Williams

Mirror, mirror on the wall,
I have placed you in my hall
Where I wander every day.
Echo beauty, and you'll stay. — Richelle E. Goodrich

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of
democracy. — Barbara

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties. — Werner Herzog

But hey, if they want to give me a medal for being me, that's okay. I'll take it. — R.J. Palacio

I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new Black sunam qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now ... I have hopes for myself. — Gwendolyn Brooks

Good," Pop slapped his thighs and pushed to his feet. "Number one job of a preacher. Know the Word. Live it, pray it, sing it. — Rachel Hauck

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
This can be tricky. — David Foster Wallace

Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion. — Linda Blair

In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas any truth contained in these metaphorical rigmaroles was so deviously presented that it looked devious itself. — Paul Scott

Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Live your life not to win golden medals but to win golden hearts. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Maybe women forget days, but they always remember moments. — Eyden I.

Until her last moment on earth she was unaware that her irreparable fate as a disturbing woman was a daily disaster. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Behind the sullen girl sat Denis Cooverman, sweating: along the cap of his mortarboard, trickling behind his ears and rippling down his forehead; around his nostrils and in that groove below his nose (which Denis would be quick to identify as the philtrum ... ); from his palms, behind his knees, inside his elbows, between his toes and from many locations not typically associated with perpiratory activity; squirting out his nipples, spewing from his navel, coursing between his buttocks and forming a tiny lake that gently lapped at his genitals; from under his arms, naturally, in two varietals
hot and sticky,a nd cold and terrified. — Larry Doyle

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people. — Keegan-Michael Key