Top 66 Am Kidd Quotes
#1. One day i will have to forgive life for ending. I tell myself I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what ti is.
Sue Monk Kidd
#2. I am the cause of the energy crisis.
Kris Kidd
#3. You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.
Sue Monk Kidd
#4. So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.
Sue Monk Kidd
#5. Mauma came down with a limp. When she was in her room or in the kitchen house for meals, she didn't have any trouble, but the minute she stepped in the yard, she dragged her leg like it was a dead log.
Sue Monk Kidd
#6. Squeezing it in my palm, I prayed, Please, God, let this seed you planted in me bear fruit.
Sue Monk Kidd
#7. They say you can bear anything if you can tell a story about it.
Sue Monk Kidd
#8. It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.
Sue Monk Kidd
#9. Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
Sue Monk Kidd
#10. Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.
Sue Monk Kidd
#11. It was respect she had for feelings, how she believed it was inimical to the soul to deny them.
Sue Monk Kidd
#12. I just mean that everything eventually ends. The two suns are always rising somewhere. That's part of life. Something ends and then something else will begin.
Sue Monk Kidd
#13. I also play a little bit of Tiger Woods once in awhile. Get on the golf course there, and pretend that I'm beating him.
Jason Kidd
#14. I knew then that no matter how hard you tried, no matter how many jars of honey you threw, no matter how much you thought you could leave your mother behind, she would never disappear from the tender places in you.
Sue Monk Kidd
#15. Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?
Sue Monk Kidd
#16. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
Sue Monk Kidd
#17. I think of drug dealers like I think of my father - never really there when you want them to be.
Kris Kidd
#18. Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.
Sue Monk Kidd
#19. I wanted to say, Who am I to do this, a woman? But that voice was not mine. It was Father's voice. It was Thomas'. It belonged to Israel, to Catherine, and to Mother. It belonged to the church in Charleston and the Quakers in Philadelphia. It would not, if I could help it, belong to me.
Sue Monk Kidd
#20. I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'
Sue Monk Kidd
#21. I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.
Chip Kidd
#22. We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.
Sue Monk Kidd
#23. Is there no easy way to taking this dress off you? Am I going to have to rip it off?
Flora Kidd
#24. I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.
Sue Monk Kidd
#25. Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through, when I am dead and gone that's what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, but I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through.
Sue Monk Kidd
#26. I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.
James Kidd
#27. Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.
Sue Monk Kidd
#28. But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother, a wife, a daughter, or simply a woman alive in the world, content to be myself. Today at thirty-two, I am glad to wake up each day and begin.
Sue Monk Kidd
#29. To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with me out to the rim of life, Beyond security. Take me to the exquisite edge of courage And release me to become.
Sue Monk Kidd
#30. I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.
Sue Monk Kidd
#31. My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.
William Kidd
#32. I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities.
Sue Monk Kidd
#33. So we just the same, me and you? That's why you the one to shit in the pot and I'm the one to empty it?
Sue Monk Kidd
#34. If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.
Sue Monk Kidd
#35. To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.
Sue Monk Kidd
#36. My desire to self-destruct is a one-night stand
on Groundhog Day.
Fucking repetitive. Repetitively fucking.
Kris Kidd
#37. I didn't know for sure whether Miss Sarah's feelings came from love or guilt. I didn't know whether mine came from love or a need to be safe. She loved me and pitied me. And I loved her and used her. It never was a simple thing.
Sue Monk Kidd
#38. We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.
Sue Monk Kidd
#39. I didn't see why loving someone had to have so much agony attached to it. It felt like a series of fresh cuts in the skin of my heart
Sue Monk Kidd
#40. There was so much in the world to be had and not had.
Sue Monk Kidd
#41. Putting black cloths on the hives is for us. I do it to remind us that life gives way into death, and then death turns around and gives way into life.
Sue Monk Kidd
#42. I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.
Chip Kidd
#43. 'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story.
Sue Monk Kidd
#44. To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.
Sue Monk Kidd
#46. The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best gift she has give me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough.
Ann Kidd Taylor
#47. As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.
Sue Monk Kidd
#48. The basic dynamics of conversion are summed up for me in the words LEAVE-ARRIVE, END-BEGIN, SHED-EMERGE. These are the tensions of conversion and spiritual awakening.
Sue Monk Kidd
#49. It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story.
Johnny Kidd
#50. I like to have a title before I start writing.
Sue Monk Kidd
#51. Missus said I was the worst waiting maid in Charleston. She said, "You are abysmal, Hetty, abysmal." I asked Miss Sarah what abysmal means and she said, "Not quite up to standard." Uh huh. I could tell from missus' face, there's bad, there's worse, and after that comes abysmal.
Sue Monk Kidd
#52. Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip.
Kris Kidd
#54. Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.
Chip Kidd
#55. If you don't know where your're going, you should know where you came from.
Sue Monk Kidd
#56. My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment. The sorrow of it had faded, but regret remained, and I'd taken to wondering if the Fates might be kinder to a different girl.
Sue Monk Kidd
#57. The piece of you that loves a part of me tries its best to hold onto the rest,
but my heart is a thousand-piece puzzle of a faraway galaxy, deep purple,
colors blending together and impossible to place.
Kris Kidd
#58. The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.
Sue Monk Kidd
#59. I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
Sue Monk Kidd
#60. That's the sacred intent of life, of God
to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.
Sue Monk Kidd
#61. I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.
William Kidd
#62. She put up an invincible show, but underneath I knew her to be bruised and vulnerable.
Sue Monk Kidd
#63. I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.
Sue Monk Kidd
#64. Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
Sue Monk Kidd
#65. Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
Chip Kidd
#66. Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
Sue Monk Kidd
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