Top 53 Holman Quotes
#1. The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.
Denise Duhamel
#2. When she turned around, her bowl of popcorn wrapped in her arms, she smacked straight into Dylan, sending her popcorn flying. "Jesus Christ, can't you wear a bell or something?" she yelled. "How the hell did you get down here so quietly? Oh my God, my popcorn," she whined.
Casey Holman
#3. Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.
Sheri Holman
#4. Time is merely the passing of awareness
Andy Holman
#5. Life must have sucked growing up without TV."
"Back then people could wait a few days to learn about all the things they couldn't control ... Nowadays we're much more impatient for our impotence.
Sheri Holman
#6. He loved that she eschewed cursive for print, as he did. Cursive, more than anything, betrayed a person's age.
Sheri Holman
#7. Sometimes you are in the middle of your destiny before you even know it has begun.
Sarah Holman
#8. Alditha wondered if perhaps the key [to] contentment was not what they had, but seeing the beauty in what they had already been given.
Sarah Holman
#9. I think God understands our pain better than we think. Crying over a sister or a brother who has died is natural and by no means wrong. We can be comforted to know that even though they are gone, we will see them again when we are all in heaven.
Sarah Holman
#10. I was thinking about how all of us sometimes think our plans, our destinies, have come to an end or a standstill, but they don't; our destinies keep going. It's just that we can't, like, see it, because we can't see the big picture to know it.
Sarah Holman
#11. Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.
James Holman
#12. And yet, the only thing about this year, he thinks, the only times that he has been completely honest with himself are on the nights he's spent here. Only among the crowd of the failed has he felt comfortable living inside his own defeat.
Sheri Holman
#13. This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will begin with loss - the loss of virginity, the loss of innocence - but that at some point there stands to be a gain.
Sheri Holman
#14. If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want.
Marcus Holman
#15. Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.
Sheri Holman
#16. Love is not measured by what you receive, Mary, but by what you give.
Sarah Holman
#17. God offered the greatest and most wonderful gift freely, while we were still sinners. It is a gift for any and every one, no matter how broken, how far, or how dark. He didn't require us to change before we came, but offered a way out while we were at our worst.
Sarah Holman
#18. All the Baptist churches she's ever visited smelled of the same sweat and boredom.
Sheri Holman
#19. The women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women.
Sheri Holman
#20. He makes her feel halfway normal by being so much further beyond her.
Sheri Holman
#21. As he left, he decided not to go back, as it was too easy to lose himself in there, as if the woman had cast a forgetful spell over the place.
Sarah Holman
#22. It's the greatest of Southern honors ... to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.
Sheri Holman
#23. The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall.
Holman W. Jenkins Jr.
#24. Two of the tiny shepherds were using their shepherds' staffs for swords, nearly hitting Mary and Joseph.
"I remember you doing that."
"You hand a boy a stick, he will use it as a sword. I remember you being upset about that."
"Because I was Mary and you ruined the whole scene.
Sarah Holman
#25. Why were people always asking me about things in my past, the things I wanted to keep hidden? But then, why did my life have to be full of details I didn't want to share with others?
Sarah Holman
#26. It is hard for people to understand helping someone if you having nothing to gain.
Sarah Holman
#27. I watched as my slippers reflected the torches when I was handed out of the carriage. When I looked up, I gasped. I had heard of the lovely palace of the king, but nothing had prepared me for the glittering jewel that was in front of me.
Sarah Holman
#28. How about that one?"
"That fat thing?"
"Amber, it is a Christmas tree. It is supposed to be fat and jolly looking, like Santa Clause.
Sarah Holman
#29. Polly had always marveled ... that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose ... gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them.
Sheri Holman
#31. Remember that sometimes you find your destiny in the places you least expect it.
Sarah Holman
#32. I may not understand what is going on in your heart, but I do see that you have put this contest before everything and everyone ... even God.
Sarah Holman
#33. None but those who have traveled, can appreciate the delight experienced from recalling in this way the interesting points of an interesting journey, and fighting, as it were, their battles over again.
James Holman
#34. No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued.
Sheri Holman
#35. Will you share that path with me always?"
"Nothing would please me more.
Sarah Holman
#36. Whatever you do, Alditha, wherever you go, trust God, and never stop smiling. Your life will be hard, and bitterness will be the easiest thing for you to feel. Remember that you serve a God who knew that this would happen before you were born.
Sarah Holman
#37. Secrets are always hardest at the beginning. After a while they settle in like the cavities in your teeth, and you only think about them when they hurt.
Sheri Holman
#38. What if we lived like Jesus really did rise from the dead?
Sarah Holman
#39. There is a light that can only be found on the other side of darkness, there is a peace that can only be found on the other side of struggle, there is a faith that can only be found on the other side of doubt, and there is a healing that can only be found on the other side of pain.
Sarah Holman
#40. [H]e went ahead and named them without her, pulling from the spiral notebook of names they'd been collecting, putting together first and middle names with no rhyme or reason ... names that obviously didn't flow.
Sheri Holman
#41. I learned something in the years I spent among suicide bombers ... The boys and girls who are willing to blow up their lives are not the true believers. They are the ones in agonies of doubt. There is always someone with nothing to prove who buckles the belt around them.
Sheri Holman
#42. The earliest truth that we're taught is that there's a world alongside this world, with spirits, not mortals, an enchanted universe of fairies, wizards, leprechauns and trolls. They are all around us. One has only to open his eyes.
William Holman Hunt
#43. None of her spells are planned, but come to her like snatches of poetry or a doodle on a napkin.
Sheri Holman
#44. Do you think bravery means to be without fear? You are greatly mistaken. You are brave not because of your lack of fear, but because you did not let that fear stop you. That is what true bravery is.
Sarah Holman
#45. The ocean ... cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm
the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me
in total freedom.
Scott Holman
#46. I dreamed of chasing Selah through a field of daisies when a Redcoat started pulling on my arm. It did not take long to realize that Matthew was tugging on my arm, not a soldier.
"Go away. I was out late. I want sleep." Not to mention that I liked dreaming of chasing my love in a field of daises.
Sarah Holman
#47. [N]ames were what you wore forever, and she felt that she'd sent her daughters out in tacky rabbit fur coats when they should have been wrapped in mink.
Sheri Holman
#48. If I had allowed myself to dwell on revenge, it would turn to bitterness, and bitterness is the worst poison a man can give himself.
Sarah Holman
#49. The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
Robert Holman
#50. But if a man truly loved you, he would see the beauty that lies much deeper than those scars.
Sarah Holman
#51. She isn't acting hurt, she is acting angry," Jared said, feeling frustrated himself.
"I know, Jared, I know. Right now, she has a distorted view of herself and the world. The only way to effectively combat a lie is with the truth.
Sarah Holman
#52. I no longer have to be afraid of looking foolish, or wonder what people might think about me, as long as I please the One who conquered death.
Sarah Holman
#53. They haven't changed Zach; you have. I think that each of us has.
Sarah Holman
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
