Valdene Troyer Quotes & Sayings

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. — Camille Paglia

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time. — David Mitchell

...Americans didn't stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises, than we decided to take off for the green world beyond, so that by the 1970 Census, we had become the first suburban nation in the history of the world. And Detroit led the way, with a population curve up and down just like everywhere else, but with its urban decline a lot steeper over the past sixty years - so typical a place that it only looks like an exception. — Jerry Herron

Why darling, I'm your Auntie Mame! — Patrick Dennis

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds. — Pema Chodron

At the end of the day, it's a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It's a psersonal test every time I step into the batter's box: Can I do better than the last time? And that's why I love it. — Barry Lyga

The only people who can see thestrals," she said, "are people who have seen death. — J.K. Rowling

I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order. — Marissa Mayer

If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy. — John Ensign

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. — Phil Ochs

Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting. — Virginia Woolf