Hammel House Quotes

#1. The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

Samuel Johnson

#2. There is never any certainty of the unseen. We hope. That's what we do as Christians, and that's what I do with unicorns. Maybe like C. S. Lewis's jewel, that glimpse of a unicorn I sometimes see is a glimpse of Jesus.

Colleen Coble

#3. Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.

Gina Barreca

#4. Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me

Barbara Coloroso

#5. I used to be surprised and a little annoyed when characters would reappear in my mind, itching to be in another story. Now I realize it's part of the deal, that you create these people out of thin air but then, if you do it right, they actually live.

Peter Orner

#6. It isn't really much of a mystery, this occasional need I have to comfort my father. I did something terrible to his son once.

John Darnielle

#7. I had to learn how to be a mother before I realized how lucky I am to be a child.

Jodi Picoult

#8. If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don't have any nose,

Les Wexner

#9. One thing I know, whispered Savannah, is that if he was quiet, and you were quiet, and neither of you minded it, then you are in love.

Nancy E. Turner

#10. Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

George Bernard Shaw

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