Whalers Bay Quotes & Sayings

I feel traveling certainly does broaden the mind. In my case certainly I feel more confident. It gives you a new perspective on the world. — Daniel Tammet

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman. — John Adams

The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow. — Hannah Hurnard

Thursday, the-night-of-the-date, comes and goes, leaving a school bus tire track across Desi's heart, fear abrading her mind until she can think of nothing except what the future will be like if something develops between her dad and Libby. — Sara Stark

What does it mean to grow rich?
Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a 'fortune,' which is what brought the whalers and other entrepreneurs north?

Or is it, rather, to have a good family life and to be imbued with a far-reaching and intimate knowledge of one's homeland, which is what the Tununirmiut told the whalers at Pond's Bay wealth was?

Is it to retain a capacity for awe and astonishment in our lives, to continue to hunger after what is genuine and worthy? Is it to live at moral peace with the universe? — Barry Lopez

Weightlessness was wonderful, and I was surprised at how natural it felt. — Ron Garan

We need God's great-grace in all spheres of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing. — Mahatma Gandhi

He might be a bad boy, but even bad boys can be broken. — C.M. Stunich

Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids. — Don Williams

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art. — Mike Curran

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect. — Jeff VanderMeer

It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

...my insides were ulcerous from coffee and terror. — Donald Antrim

I like mountains and oceans and stuff, which is where I've always felt some sort of power of meaning, but that's not necessarily spiritual. — Bill Callahan

You can do a great many things if you're rich which would be severely criticised if you were poor. You can go and come, you can travel alone, you can have your own establishment: I mean of course if you'll take a companion - some decayed gentlewoman, with a darned cashmere and dyed hair, who paints on velvet. — Henry James