Caleb's Crossing Quotes

#1. From "Caleb's Crossing"
This is an excellent thought about family though it doesn't apply to me. I am lucky in my brothers.
"Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul to whom fate had shackled me.

Geraldine Brooks

#2. Politics does not concern itself who should rule us. It is about what kind of rule people should have.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#3. The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

Willa Gibbs

#4. providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each

John Charles Pollock

#5. The wheel of the world swings through the same phases again and again.

Rudyard Kipling

#6. When you take on a TV show, you give trust to people that you really just met.

Katee Sackhoff

#7. All authority must be out of a man's self, turned ... either upon an art, or upon a man.

Francis Bacon

#8. You have to do a show, an interview, you've got to go straight back on the road to another location, make a track and edit things like footage etc. It's non stop. I really respect the hustle and work rate of Chipmunk, as well as N-Dubz and Tinchy Stryder.

Tinie Tempah

#9. Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

Paul Farmer

#10. In the old days,' he said, 'writers' lives were more interesting than their writing. Now-a-days neither their lives nor the writing is interesting.

Charles Bukowski

#11. You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

Corrie Ten Boom

#12. The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. It is, on the whole, a merciful arrangement. We are not condemned to sustained flights of being, but are constantly refreshed by little holidays from ourselves. . . .

Gregory Maguire

#13. Sometimes, when Bridget was in a particularly melodious mood, Sophie thought about stalking downstairs and pushing her into the oven like the with in 'Hansel and Gretel.

Cassandra Clare

#14. You truly do have the power to reach your goals.

Beverly K. Bachel

#15. Grief turns us inward, but compassion turns us outward, and that's what we need when grief threatens to crush us. The Bible says, "Carry each other's burdens" [Galatians 6:2 NIV].

Billy Graham