Zata Shipyard Quotes & Sayings

Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children's literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free of all violence and especially violence with Freudian undertones. Even the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, so singularly free of the horrors to be found in Grimm and Andersen, contain many scenes of decapitation. As far as I know, there have been no empirical studies of how children react to such scenes and what harm if any is done to their psyche. My guess is that the normal child finds it all very amusing and is not damaged in the least, but that books like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis. — Martin Gardner

Fluke me, Murdstone. — Mal Peet

Showbiz can be cruel. — Nadia Bjorlin

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimming is - it's kind of a relaxed attitude with the water. In which you don't keep yourself afloat by holding the water, but by a certain giving to it. — Alan W. Watts

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw. — Jimmy Breslin

The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save. — Thomas S. Monson

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs. — Horace

When I was younger I was really shy, but I'd always be singing, driving my family crazy. Apparently I was even singing when I was in the cot. That probably didn't sound too good! — Pixie Lott

Find your eternity in each moment — Henry David Thoreau

From the inaccessible mountains, across the desert which no mortal foot has trod, far as the confines of the unknown ocean, breathes the spirit of the eternal Creator; and every atom to which he has given existence finds favour in his sight. Ah, how often at that time has the flight of a bird, soaring above my head, inspired me with the desire of being transported to the shores of the immeasurable waters, there to quaff the pleasures of life from the foaming goblet of the Infinite, and to partake, if but for a moment even, with the confined powers of my soul, the beatitude of that Creator who accomplishes all things in himself, and through himself! My — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Because when you've been around forever, you have to find something outside yourself to believe in or go mad. I believe in humanity. I believe in you. — Tellulah Darling

I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you."
"I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, "
or the best. Now I'm all confused. — Tamora Pierce

I go to sleep at night, like, 'Am I gonna be alone forever?' — Kevin Durant

I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was. — Marian Keyes