Gumbie Quotes

#1. It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time it has to be conscious. To circle about in such gladness as his, is the effort of a whole lifetime. - Author: Jeanette Winterson

#2. I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write. - Author: Patricia Reilly Giff

#3. To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,
And so your follies fight against yourself.
Fear, and be slain
so worse can come to fight;
And fight and die is death destroying death,
Where fearing dying pays death servile breath. - Author: William Shakespeare

#4. The Doctor called Mrs. Cohen saying, "Mrs. Cohen, your check came back." Mrs. Cohen answered, "So did my arthritis!" - Author: Henny Youngman

#5. I've never read a script that I've loved equally and differently to the book. - Author: Emma Roberts

#6. Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices. - Author: Michael J. Fox

#7. You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things. - Author: Pablo Picasso

#8. Any one setting out to dispute anything ought always to begin by saying what he does not dispute. Beyond stating what he proposes to prove he should always state what he does not propose to prove. - Author: G.K. Chesterton

#9. The things we can handle, if we had patiently endured! - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. There's a big difference between hating someone in peace and hating someone during war. - Author: Hannah Moskowitz

#11. I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots. - Author: T. S. Eliot

#12. No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom. - Author: Harry Houdini

#13. just like peaches," he said, stripping off her panties. "And I love peaches."
-Wrath - Author: J.R. Ward

#14. I love to see the sunshine on the wings of the Dragonflies... there is magic in it. - Author: Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#15. All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below. - Author: Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#16. I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times & intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. - Author: Gustave Courbet