Christmas For Adoptees Quotes

#1. Are you guys, like, in love? Brian asked in a girl voice.
Alexis and Jason locked stares because even though everyone had started laughing at Brian's jibe, the word was there, hanging between the two of them, waiting to be grabbed for their personal use.

Lindsay Chamberlin

#2. Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

Henri Nouwen

#3. Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?

Johnny Ramone

#4. Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Artur Davis

#5. Mostly I was spending time in the Strand, that bastion of titillating erudition. Not so much a bookstore as a collision of 100 different bookstores, with literary wreckage strewn over 18 miles of shelves.

David Levithan

#6. When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."

Sandra Bullock

#7. Music is a form of prayer.

Toru Takemitsu

#8. Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

Annie E. Clark

#10. Sadness can be romantic but it's dangerous to play on it.

Christopher E. Young

#11. There's nothing as real as money.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#12. I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

Henry Miller

#13. God's most common way of answering prayers is through people. But for that to work, Christians must pay attention and listen, we must put ourselves in a position to see others' needs, and we must respond when God calls.

Adam Hamilton

#14. In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.

Jeanne Moreau

#15. The holiness of the real
Is always there, accessible
In total immanence. The nodes
Of transcendence coagulate
In you, the experiencer,
And in the other, the lover.

Kenneth Rexroth