Upbearer Quotes & Sayings

Everything started the night I saw the burning man fall from the sky. — Gwen Hayes

Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Out here everybody abuses everybody. It's just the way it is. So you'd better get used to it. - excerpt from: freefalling — Darlenne Susan Girard

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances. — Pope Pius XI

There is nothing in the Quran or early Muslim religious literature to suggest an iconoclastic attitude. Grabar has argued that Muslim calligraphy and vegetal arts were most likely a pragmatic adaptation to the need for a new imperial-Islamic emblem distinct from the Byzantine and Sasanian portraits of emperors. The use of vegetal designs and writing was prior to any religious theory about them. Once adopted, they became the norm for Islamic public art. Theories about Islamic iconoclasm were developed later. — Ira M. Lapidus