Jay Crownover Rowdy Quotes

#1. Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

Michael Josephson

#2. There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

Karen Kingsbury

#3. All death matters."
"Only to the living.

Dean Koontz

#4. I wasn't exactly thrilled about it being a Lutheran organization, but when you live in Minnesota - land of lutefisk and home to no less than seven Lutheran colleges and four Lutheran seminaries - Lutherans are kind of inescapable.

Chris Stedman

#5. There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.

Steve Coogan

#6. No matter how the road winds and turns, as long as you are there at the end of it I'll be happy, Rowdy.

Jay Crownover

#7. The reason you can accomplish something is because you already had it within you.

Bryant McGill

#8. My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren't empire builders.

Eli Broad

#9. I do see, in some younger writers, elements and things that I have used - and I am very touched and flattered because I am part of a tapestry that is being absorbed by authors.

Isobelle Carmody

#10. O shut the door! and when thou hast done so,
Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help!

William Shakespeare

#11. Making new products is an easy tap for a company in a recession.

Martin Naughton

#12. We can know one thing, Rowdy, but our heart holds on to something else."
"I don't want it to hold on to that anymore. I just want it to hold on to you.

Jay Crownover

#13. You found your family tree, Rowdy, and the branches are stronger and sturdier than most people with blood relatives have.

Jay Crownover

#14. If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds ... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

Kevin Bacon

#15. When we understand the privilege of what it means to be an athlete, we are in touch with, and rejoice in, our physical, mental, and emotional strengths and our endless possibilities.

Gloria Averbuch

#16. True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.

Paula Gunn Allen

#17. What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.

George MacDonald

#18. We might have been on the outside looking in at our own families and our own lives, but at least we could stand outside together.

Jay Crownover

#19. If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

Maurice Sendak