Vandevender Quotes & Sayings

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. — Lionel Trilling

Weapons'

Up the crag
In the searing wind,
Naked and bleeding
I fought blind.

Then at dawn
On the snowy height
I seized a spear
By the eastern light.

On I trudged
In the eye of the sun
Past the cromlech
I found a gun.

Then I strayed
In the cities of men,
In the house of my Love
I found a pen! — Anna Wickham

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. — Caroline Kennedy

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. — Jasper Johns

I know that is what I was put on Earth to do - to be a mother. — Cheryl Cole

I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school. — Junot Diaz

Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition. — P.L. Travers

Take one catastrophe at a time, that's all you can do. — A.E. Hellstorm