William Leigh Pierce Quotes & Sayings

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. — Ouida

I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place. — Rufus Jones

I didn't grow up vegan or vegetarian. I grew up with junk food! And because of the way I ate before changing my diet, I can truly understand the challenges of making changes and stepping away from foods that provided a form of comfort and happiness growing up, but finding out that most of what I loved was really bad for me! — Kim Barnouin

In some countries, of course, Spanish is the language spoken in public. But for many American children whose families speak Spanish at home, it becomes a private language. They use it to keep the English-speaking world at bay. — Richard Rodriguez

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

I like a good challenge. And I like to feel that I'm always learning something new. — Hannah Fidell

What I loved about breast-feeding was that bond of one-on-one time. The serotonin that's released calms you down and connects you to the baby. — Isla Fisher

You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do not enable me to say I think integrity the characteristic of wealth. In general I believe the decisions of the people, in a body, will be more honest and more disinterested than those of wealthy men. — Thomas Jefferson

Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness. — Loren Eiseley

You cannot be doomed, after all, as long as you can still see the faint outline of hope on the opposite shore. — Jodi Picoult