Ybox2 Quotes & Sayings

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood. — Edwin Gaustad

To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us. — Brooklyn Sudano

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain. — Kahlil Gibran

That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition. — Andrew Jackson

Impatience is not a virtue, but an annoyance — Kayden

I say no wealth is worth my life! Not all they claim
was stored in the depths of Troy, that city built on riches,
in the old days of peace before the sons of Achaea came-
not all the gold held fast in the Archer's rocky vaults,
in Phoebus Apollo's house on Pytho's sheer cliffs!
Cattle and fat sheep can all be had for the raiding,
tripods all for the trading, and tawny-headed stallions.
But a man's life breath cannot come back again-
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
Mother tells me,
the immortal goddess Thetis with her glistening feet,
that two fates bear me on to the day of death.
If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy,
my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies.
If I voyage back to the fatherland I love,
my pride, my glory dies ...
true, but the life that's left me will be long,
the stroke of death will not come on me quickly. — Homer

As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it ... Children trust the power of words. — Julia Cameron

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run. — Augustine Of Hippo

I'm interested in social commentary. — Kathryn Bigelow

Marika was a book nerd and had a TBR pile taller than her. She was a sucker for YA — Mirella Muffarotto

Life without an ideal is spiritual death. — Emma Goldman