Ferryman's Quotes

#1. It was one of the ferryman's greatest virtues that, like few people, he knew how to listen.

Hermann Hesse

#2. Death is permanent. There's no coming back if you get off the ferryman's boat.

Martha Sweeney

#3. I didn't set out to do something different so much as do something that interested me. I wasn't trying to be avant-garde - that's being fashionable. You don't set out to revolutionize art, you make statements for yourself.

Arnold Newman

#4. I'm doing the best I can. Getting old, that's what it is. I'll be fifty-three at the feast of Saint Michael. I'm no longer as strong as you are, young sirs,' said the ferryman.

Maurice Druon

#5. There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation.

John Edwards

#6. ...they're here for a moment and then gone. At best they have "liftoff" power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power.

Ravi Zacharias

#7. I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

Jonathan Edwards

#8. I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.

Josh Young

#10. Pain was the coin that paid the ferryman.

Jonathan Maberry

#11. Awakening is not a matter of working on issues. It is a matter of waking up from the dream in which those issues seem real.

Jeru Kabbal

#12. There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they're dumb. There needs to be a recognition that you need different ways to teach children who have got reading problems.

Jackie French

#13. The law against sodomy is trying to stop homosexual men from enjoying themselves. That's what the law is all about. But this is stupid. What do you do according to the law? You find two men enjoying themselves sexually. You arrest them and throw them in ... prison? That outta do it.

Kevin Pollak

#14. All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy,

Gregory Maguire

#15. Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don't seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there's a bridge now.

Terry Pratchett