Villacorta Granite Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather die my way than live yours. The — Lauren Oliver

He held his hand out, palm up, watching her with soft, penetrating eyes, deep, dark eyes that called to her the longer she stared at them. "How 'bout you give me the benefit of the doubt every once in a while, hmm? I'd like a chance to prove I'm not that stupid kid anymore. — J.M. Stewart

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids? — Hal Borland

Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients. — Abraham Verghese

I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance. — Jewel

Flammflorbs, archypodsplays, clinker crabs, dorsaldorydabbs, mingslakks, linglimes, occocobbers, firgengobblers, smitesnides, orkusta shelled bunkbarnacles, balootabinks, jorgentua jellyfish, tungol widders, teleosti chimaras, and things stranger, yet to be named, Klubbe and his crew members observed through their portholes, lit by the lamps of their submarine's lanterns. — Philip Dodd

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do. — Bob Gibson

His kisses were too rote; they were assembly-line kisses. She wanted complex kisses; she wanted each kiss to be a conversation. — Brian Morton

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature. — Edgar Degas

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out. — Charles Revson

Carry me on and on to the edge of the earth, with children's laughter like a wind - full sail, then carry me beyond — Eowyn Ivey

The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse. — Eugene H. Peterson

Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty. — Franny Billingsley

Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it. — Harriet Morgan