Yarbrough Quotes & Sayings

The Elder is called Dee, first-born, of the Yarbrough lineage, whose landname is VaWaco. — Mary Doria Russell

The moment I heard my dad's voice, I started bawling. "This isn't the path," I kept saying, my words garbled with tears and snot. "It wasn't supposed to go like this." I remember feeling as though everything I had worked for had been snatched away. Dad saw things differently.
"Well-worn paths are boring," he said. "Embrace the detour."
But how can you tell a detour from a dead end? — Lauren Miller

Every place is different, but every place is the same, because you carry yourself with you wherever you go. — Steve Yarbrough

Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. And you know why I think that happens? Too much truth distilled to its essence, all surrounding evidence ignored or discarded. And I'm not faulting them for that. — Steve Yarbrough

The goal of education by the grace of God is to create self-governing people who live under the Law of God for the glory of Christ. — Tim Yarbrough

Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story. — John Grisham

Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be. — Richard Russo

Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as it is about the troubled history of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough is a formidably talented novelist, shuttling between the past and present with a grace that feels effortless. — Tom Perrotta

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum. — Carl Sandburg

Hodor twice as big, twice as strong, and half as clever. — George R R Martin

Her brain couldn't seem to catch up with the news. It was like the way she'd kept rolling toward Will last night in her sleep, only to find empty space where he should have been, and then waking up with a jolt. — Liane Moriarty

It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day. — Steve Yarbrough

The Rest of Our Life Is Going To Be The Best of Our Life! — Darrell Yarbrough

It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude. — Derek Mahon

A successful person is one who by God's grace and mercy is continuously maturing in his thoughts, in his conversation, and in his deeds to practice the revealed will of God and proving it according to His Word. — Tim Yarbrough

You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Most men love to see their best friend in abasement; for generally it is on such abasement that friendship is founded. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. — Tim Yarbrough

Do not try to dress for the other women who will verbally and otherwise judge your appearance. Their opinion doesn't matter. — Gary Yarbrough

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles. — Ira Hayes

Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity ... Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way. — Ron Rash

Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece ... This is a spellbinding, powerful novel. — Jill McCorkle

Death is the beginning of life as life is the beginning of death, and all floods start a movement that cycle from scouring to sediment building. The same sediments that build also bury. — Paul H. Yarbrough

It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us. — Ariel Sharon