Wenckebach Quotes & Sayings

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases. — William Makepeace Thackeray

As American culture changes, the scandal of Christianity is increasingly right up front, exactly where it was in the first century. The shaking of American culture will get us back to the question Jesus asked his disciples at Caesarea Philippi: "Who do you say that I am?" As the Bible Belt recedes, those left standing up for Jesus will be those who, like Simon Peter of old, know how to answer that question. Once Christianity is no longer seen as part and parcel of patriotism, the church must offer more than "What would Jesus do?" moralism and the "I vote values" populism to which we've grown accustomed. Good. — Russell D. Moore

Did you say "Ends of the Earth?!!" I don't think I've enough gas for that!! — Arnold Arre

If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week! — L. S. Lowry

For someone who did a lot of yoga and had a peace sign tramp stamp on her lower back, she sure could be a bitch. — Alison Umminger

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.
[Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009] — Cormac McCarthy

Every part of Nigeria is blessed. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened? — Valentina Tereshkova

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. — Robert A. Heinlein

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised. — Robin Wright