Bottomlands Quotes

#1. Upstream, Arkansas and Ohio have their bottomlands, too, populated by a jaundiced and hungry-looking race, prone to fevers, whose eyes gleam at the sight of stone and iron, for they know only sand and driftwood and muddy water.

Jorge Luis Borges

#2. Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.

Toni Morrison

#3. They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny people on a tiny little earth suspended in an endless void that echoes past stars and stars of stars.

Donald Miller

#4. Give love and Get Betrayal
This is true same as much as Death is true

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#5. Nothing like an endangered pocketbook to help a businessman find his conscience.

Susan Carol McCarthy

#6. I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

Dave Eggers

#7. I would rather have an elephant with a flatulence problem sit on my face.

Samantha Young