Zupans Burnside Portland Oregon Quotes & Sayings

A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.' — Chamique Holdsclaw

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. — Charles Caleb Colton

I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams. — James Lee Burke

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion. — Kevin Patterson

Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it? — Rosie Thomas

Nobody can tell me what I can or can't do, except they can. — Bob Saget

He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important? — Madeline Miller

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps? — H.R. Giger

If I could only keep up my spirit- if I could only play the game according to the sportsman's code which Rita had been trying to teach me so gravely and so sweetly- if I could only, I told myself, do that, then in the long run, all might be right between us- because I had not nagged her or wearied her, because I had proved myself her peer, as prompt to offer all for love and as brave to bear its passing. If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart, the fires which keep the poet alive as the citizen never lives, but which burn all the roofs of security! — Edmund Wilson

Remember how Paul and Barnabas urged this upon the Jews of Antioch, 'persuading them to continue in the grace of God' (Acts 13:43; Gal. 5:4; Titus 2:11; 1 Peter 5:12). — Horatius Bonar