Zoo Bulletin Board Quotes & Sayings

When he is away from her, he tries to conjure up her face. He closes his eyes, but the magic eludes him. When they are together he watches, learning her features, her gestures. Still, afterwards, he cannot make it happen. It is as though when she does she takes everything of herself with her. — Aminatta Forna

... suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness. — Ingrid Schaffner

The first direction of a prayer: believe that God is able to manage your problem and appeal to Him. — Sunday Adelaja

I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the one responsible for the Marquess of Atherton's heir and sole offspring. I am not the one who will be toppled from my pedestal if the world learns I have not only permitted but encouraged my nephew to associate with the most shocking persons. I am not the one who-"
"I wish you were the one who had heard of the rule Silence is Golden," he said. — Loretta Chase

I told Sabe floor-scrubbing was winter — Sue Monk Kidd

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal. — Michelle Shocked

I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it. — Pharrell Williams

Americans spend an average of about $7,200 a year on health care, compared with the roughly $2,900 average for the other market economies that make up the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), and for that greatly increased outlay we get higher infant mortality, higher obesity rates, lower longevity, fewer doctors per 1,000 people (just 2.4 per 1,000 in the United States, compared with 3.1 in OECD states), and fewer acute care hospital beds (2.7 per 1,000, compared to 3.8 per 1,000 in the OECD countries). — Matt Taibbi

At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded. — Chyler Leigh

For years I had a fantasy of a happy-ever-after ending. The first night I spent at the university my fantasy ended, because I thought a happy-ever-after was pointless. Because with my father I didn't want to hope for a happy ending but to have had a happy beginning. I wanted to have been looked after by Daddy in childhood, not finding resolution with my father as an adult. — Rosamund Lupton

Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice. — Bill Courtney

Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
The motion of a muscle, this way or that,
'Tis done
And in the after-vacancy,
We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed. — William Wordsworth