Thimbleful Threads Quotes & Sayings

As our kids are drawn into, you know, Facebook and twittering and having their own cell phone and iPod and all those things , all of those things will take up as much time as you give them. What our goal is is to help them find that natural balance so that the things of our culture don't just steal their hearts and their minds and just consume their lives. — Alex Kendrick

A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition ... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet received the attention they deserve. — Willis Lamb

No matter what his birth certificate said or didn't say, he was Billy Dent's son. — Barry Lyga

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions. — Andrew Bird

Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That's who we teach! — Penny Kittle

Time goes on even when we do not. — Tahereh Mafi

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. — Vincent Van Gogh

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead? — Robert Louis Stevenson

Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure. — Joe Namath

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy. — Andrew Lansley

Trusting God doesn't alter our circumstances. Perfect trust in Him changes us. — Charles R. Swindoll

Perfection is overrated, boring. It's the imperfections--the vulnerabilities, the weaknesses, the human elements--that make us who we are, that make us real, beautiful . . . necessary. — Guy Harrison

The moths look like souls in the underworld, — Ursula K. Le Guin

In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity. — Jean Baudrillard