Fisherman's Wife Quotes

#1. There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Will Durst

#2. What the road really was, she fancied, was this hypodermic needle, inserted somewhere ahead into the vein of a freeway, a vein nourishing the mainliner L.A., keeping it happy, coherent, protected from pain, or whatever passes, with a city, for pain.

Thomas Pynchon

#3. There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. Do your best; don't worry about the results of your test.

Debasish Mridha

#5. The God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government. And he has sent other choice spirits to preserve it.

Ezra Taft Benson

#6. That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.

C.S. Lewis

#7. I have already been loved," said Edward. "I have been loved by a girl named Abilene. I have been loved by a fisherman and his wife and a hobo and his dog. I have been loved by a boy who played the harmonica and by a girl who died. Don't talk to me about love," he said. "I have known love.

Kate DiCamillo

#8. I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#9. Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care.

Marcus Borg

#10. Our ancestors pay the price for who we are

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind. The best you can do is do something and then make up some law to fit and by the time that law gets on the books you would have done something different. Do

Robert Penn Warren

#12. LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME to find out. NOW. RIGHT NOW.

Shaun King

#13. Every age had its losses, they said, even youth, which lost first childhood, then youth too. And all first things were vivid, including losses. "Just keep learning," the old woman said.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#14. As long as there is a sun and a moon, there is another day to love and fight.

Gemma Liviero

#15. Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

John D. Voelker