Janvrin Isle Quotes

#1. My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.

Billy Crystal

#2. Given his campaign rhetoric about Afghanistan, I think I myself, our commanders, and our troops had expected more commitment to the cause and more passion for it from him. ...I never doubted Obama's support for the troops, only his support for their mission." Pg. 299

Robert M. Gates

#3. People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I've endured.

Margaret Cho

#4. The men who mine coal and fire furnaces and balance ledgers and turn lathes and pick cotton and heal the sick and plant corn - all serve as proudly, and as profitably, for America as the statesmen who draft treaties and the legislators who enact laws.

George Washington

#5. The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

Hillary Clinton

#6. He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Evelyn Waugh

#7. Our soul begins to grow in God when we acknowledge our basic neediness.

John Ortberg

#8. I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

William Kent Krueger

#9. Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

Daisaku Ikeda

#10. Mountains are where heaven meets earth.

Anita Diament