Wolverton Quotes & Sayings

I want to tell the children of the world, you are all our children, each one of you is my child and I love you all. — Michael Jackson

Deified and demonized. Prized and pummeled. Loved and loathed. Mostly, she's still standing. — Mimi Wolverton

Lockley would've hugged him if it weren't physically impossible for a puffin and a walrus to embrace. — Barry Wolverton

She's commanding and loyal, doesn't suffer fools well or make small talk, demands loyalty, and is extremely intelligent. — Mimi Wolverton

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out. — Aphra Behn

No, we cannot change
the mistakes we've left behind.
But there's one thing we can do -
one thing I must do -
we can choose not
to repeat them. — Holly Bodger

God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We do not ask favors or indulgence but ask that, if You will, use us as Your instrument for the right and an aid in returning peace to the world. — Robert Lee Wolverton

Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all. — Dave Wolverton

If we do have only one afternoon to live, I'd love to hear another story. — Barry Wolverton

I love to live and I live to love. — Amy Winehouse

Get wise, youse guys! — Basil Wolverton

The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its considerable light on the passage from religion toward faith, from self-medication to sobriety, from daughterhood to motherhood, from being the disembodied 'good girl' to embracing her own bad lesbian self. In crisp chapters, Seaton leads us, step-by-step, over this harrowing and blissful road, so distinct from yet so much like our own. — Terry Wolverton

The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas. — Basil Wolverton

For some strange reason, beans always fall off knives. — Basil Wolverton

Men, I am not a religious man and I don't know your feelings in this matter, but I am going to ask you to pray with me for the success of the mission before us. And while we pray, let us get on our knees and not look down but up with faces raised to the sky so that we can see God and ask his blessing in what we are about to do. — Robert Lee Wolverton

was fascinated by a 9th-century poem by the Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, whose religious poem Christ included the Old English word for the known inhabited world: middangeard, translated as "Middle-earth." The poem makes reference to a being called Earendal, who is the brightest of angels above Middle-earth and is sent to humans. — Wyatt North

Qui-gon shook his head. 'No,' he said firmly. 'I'm not testing you, Obi-wan. Life tests you! Every day it brings you new chances for triumph or defeat. And if you pass the test, it doesn't make you a Jedi. It makes you human. — Dave Wolverton

Never concede to evil ... . When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger. — Dave Wolverton

Q: You'er presented with a smooth-faced, eight-foot-high wooden wall. Your objective? Get over it. To, like, save comrades or something. How to accomplish this?
A: Take a running start, brace one foot against the wall, throw one hand to the top, try to hang on long enough for a comrade to either grab your hand at the top or for another comrade to push your butt up from below. It takes team work!
BKA (bird kid answer): Or you could just, like, fly over it. — James Patterson

But you have so much in common. You're both from strange little backwater planets. You both have odd powers. You're male and she's female. What more do you need? Believe me, buddy, if I were you, I'd go right up there and ask her if she wants to ride on my rancor. — Dave Wolverton

I warn you, the trip will not be easy. Once you choose to walk in the light, your path will lead you places you do not want to go. — Dave Wolverton