Botkin Quotes

#1. Learning to "find my place in the world" translates in the practical language of life as "finding my little slot in the big State machine.

Anna Sofia Botkin

#2. Whoever trains the children controls the future. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a society will only ever be as strong as the families in it.

Anna Sofia Botkin

#3. I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.

Kevin Drew

#4. It was one of those dreams which, while retaining the characteristic dream scenery, are a continuation of one's intellectual life, and in which one becomes aware of facts and ideas which still seem new and valuable after one is awake.

George Orwell

#5. Botkin cannot build house from such little twigs!" he shouted at me, giving my upper arm a squeeze. "Eat something!

Leigh Bardugo

#6. Society says that to free a man from his demons you have to lock him in a cage; I say to lock his demons in a cage you have to free the man from society.

Jakk Folley

#7. Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.

Pythagoras

#8. Miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to ...

Justin Cronin

#9. The women hailed in the bible as examples for us were exceedingly wise, clever, intelligent, capable, and quick-witted. They were not shackled to the home, brainless ans without ambition. But their ambitions were God-oriented and God-directed.
~ Jennie

Anna Sofia Botkin

#10. When seeing the simple truth means recognizing that we're in sin, we would rather see things as being complicated.

Anna Sofia Botkin

#11. Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.

Daniel Botkin

#12. The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

Daniel Botkin

#13. Every generation has its defining challenge. Ours is the systematic annihilation of the biblical family."
~ Doug Phillips

Anna Sofia Botkin

#14. Judge a man not by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes."
-John Gregory

Anna Sofia Botkin

#15. Films are not primarily an entertainment medium. They are weapons. If you understand that, then you are ready to pursue filmmaking as a vocation.

Isaac Botkin

#16. Every trial toughens the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. The property adjoined the bay, and when the tide came in it was possible to go kayaking, which some of the residents not yet disabled by their infirmities were happy to do. This is how I would like to live, thought Irina, taking deep breaths of the sweet aroma of pines and laurels.

Isabel Allende

#18. We have so many churches these days that instead of reaching the unchurched are unchurching the churched"
~ Dr. Michael Horton

Anna Sofia Botkin

#19. That which doesn't boil need not be stirred;
That which isn't shared never occurred.

Theron Arnold

#20. The university... has intimidated her so that she will always give the "right" answer instead of the Christian answer, regardless of what she really believes.

Anna Sofia Botkin

#21. You come back to train with Botkin. I hit big girl same as little girl."
"That's very egalitarian of you." I said, and hurried Tamar out of the stables before Botkin decided to show me just how fair-minded he could be.

Leigh Bardugo

#22. When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.

Eudora Welty

#23. Taught little girl to fight, no?" "Yes," I agreed, wincing at the memory.
"But little girl is not so little anymore," he said taking in the gold of my kefta. "You come back to train with Botkin. I hit big girl same as little girl."
"That's very egalitarian of you.

Leigh Bardugo

#24. flat leaves like hands reaching for us. The

Lauren Oliver

#25. It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

Robert Musil

#26. The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

June Jordan

#27. Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

Pink

#28. Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.

Daniel Botkin