Surgent Quotes & Sayings

Faith is a process in action. It cannot exist without work. — Ellen J. Barrier

It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick us, if they did not. — Barbara Kingsolver

There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line. — Martin O'Malley

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out. — Margaret Drabble

Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams. (Harry Braxton) — Connie Brockway

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis. — Jack Nicholson

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion. — H.L. Mencken

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. — Edward R. Murrow

Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need, — John Currin

North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack them. Which is a little strange because for us to attack them we would have to have slam dunk proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. I mean, for Gods sakes people, we're not maniacs. It would have to be an air-tight case. We wouldn't just come in there and start bombing you. — Jon Stewart

Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green, which will merge as the weeks pass, the Summer comes, into a canopy of shade of busy chlorophyll. — Hal Borland

Companions were not allowed to lie. I don't know why. I had tried a few times when I was young to get Benjamin to lie, and he never could. As we got older, I tried experiments, attempting to find a way for him to lie. Lies of omission, white lies, whoppers. Nothing. He couldn't lie. My father told me that they were programmed that way. He seemed kind of proud about that.
And now, I hoped, that would save my life. — Erma I Talamante

No one has, because even in this middle age, he's sensitive, and if you say the wrong thing, he'll show the world just how sensitive he is by crying at your funeral. — Paul Beatty